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FlexMAC: a wireless protocol development and evaluation platform based on commodity hardware

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Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization table of contents

San Francisco, California, USA

DEMONSTRATION SESSION: Demonstrations table of contents

Pages 105-106

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-187-3

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Mei-Hsuan Lu	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Peter Steenkiste	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Tsuhan Chen	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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SIGMOBILE: ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Developing and evaluating wireless protocols is challenging because it requires flexible network interface hardware, which is not readily available. To reduce the efforts of conducting realistic wireless experiment, we have developed FlexMAC, a wireless protocol development and evaluation platform based on commodity hardware. FlexMAC targets CSMA wireless protocols and allows customization of functions such as backoff, retransmission, and packet timing. In this demo, we will show that FlexMAC is a useful tool for wireless protocol development. We will demonstrate two projects that are developed using FlexMAC, including a software-based 802.11 implementation and an opportunistic relaying protocol in 802.11.

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	1	Mei-Hsuan Lu , Peter Steenkiste , Tsuhan Chen, Using commodity hardware platform to develop and evaluate CSMA protocols, Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization, September 19-19, 2008, San Francisco, California, USA [doi>10.1145/1410077.1410092]
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