MAClets: active MAC protocols over hard-coded devices

Authors:
Giuseppe Bianchi;Pierluigi Gallo;Domenico Garlisi;Fabrizio Giuliano;Francesco Gringoli;Ilenia Tinnirello
Affiliations:
Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy;Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy;Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy;Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy;Universitá degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy;Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We introduce MAClets, software programs uploaded and executed on-demand over wireless cards, and devised to change the card's real-time medium access control operation. MAClets permit seamless reconfiguration of the MAC stack, so as to adapt it to mutated context and spectrum conditions and perform tailored performance optimizations hardly accountable by an once-for-all protocol stack design. Following traditional active networking principles, MAClets can be directly conveyed within data packets and executed on hard-coded devices acting as virtual MAC machines. Indeed, rather than executing a pre-defined protocol, we envision a new architecture for wireless cards based on a protocol interpreter (enabling code portability) and a powerful API. Experiments involving the distribution of MAClets within data packets, and their execution over commodity WLAN cards, show the flexibility and viability of the proposed concept.