= A Flexible Framework for Wireless Medium Access Protocols = Authors: C. Hunter, J. Camp, P. Murphy, A. Sabharwal, C. Dick == Abstract == In this paper, we present a framework for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol development and performance evaluation. The framework, developed for the Rice University Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP), allows us to interface a large class of medium access protocols with custom physical layer (PHY) implementations, thereby providing a flexible and high-performance research tool. MAC protocols for our framework are written in C and targeted to embedded PowerPC cores within the Xilinx Virtex II-Pro class of FPGAs. A key innovation is a flexible interface between the PHY and the MAC capable of exposing user-defined parameters to either layer, thus enabling cross-layer research. {{{ @inproceedings{Hunter:2006, Author = {C. Hunter and J. Camp and P. Murphy and A. Sabharwal and C. Dick }, Booktitle = {Proc. 2006 Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems}, Title = {A Flexible Framework for Wireless Medium Access Protocols}, Year = {2006}} }}} == Code == WARPMAC is still maintained as part of the [wiki:OFDMReferenceDesign OFDM Reference Design]. The latest WARPMAC code is available in the WARP repository: [source:/PlatformSupport/WARPMAC]