Demonstration Abstract: WARP – A Flexible Platform for Clean-Slate Wireless Medium Access Protocol Design
Ahmed K. F. Khattab, Joseph Camp, Chris Hunter, Patrick Murphy, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Edward W. Knightly · 2008
The flexible interface between the medium access layer and the custom physical layer of the Rice University Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP) provides a high performance research tool for clean-slate cross layer designs. As we target a community platform, we have implemented various basic PHY and MAC technologies over WARP. Moreover, we are implementing cross-layer schemes such as rate adaptation and crosslayer MIMO MAC protocols. In this demo, we demonstrate the flexibility of the interaction between the the WARP PHY and MAC layers by showing the capability to instantaneously change the modulation scheme, disabling/enabling MAC features such as carrier sensing or RTS/CTS 4-way handshake, and different multi-rate schemes. I. WARP Overview Wireless open-Access Research Platform (WARP) [1] is a programmable wireless research tool that is both scalable and extensible. The custom design of the WARP physical (PHY) layer is tailored to the needs of high-performance wireless communications. While