A split MAC approach for SDR platforms

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 912-924

  Di Francesco, Paolo ^a   McGettrick, Seamas ^a   Anyanwu, Uchenna K ^b   Osullivan, James C ^a   MacKenzie, Allen B ^c   Dasilva, Luiz A ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

CSMA; FPGA; SDR; split architecture

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE RADIO;

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS (CSMA); END-TO-END THROUGHPUT; FPGA-BASED IMPLEMENTATION; GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; RECONFIGURABLE RADIOS; SDR; SPLIT ARCHITECTURES;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 84925064563     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2014.2308197     Document Type: Article

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