wiki:802.11/MAC/Upper

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Upper-level MAC Description

The upper-level MAC is responsible for inter-packet states that are not time critical. For example, the Access Point implementation is an upper-level MAC that handles the association handshake state machine, but relies on the lower-level DCF MAC for actual medium access.

There is a considerable amount of shared code among different upper-level MAC implementations. The MAC High Framework is the collection of these shared operations.