| | 83 | Quite obviously, the first stage of development of this framework is for the lowest module that needs to be able to transmit and capture raw MAC frames, in addition to providing APIs for interface parameter tuning. An additional requirement of the lowest module is that of appending parameter information to outgoing or incoming frames. The motivation for this requirement stems from the experimental nature of this work and from the interest shown by the research community in cross-layer protocol design. Within the framework, the following figure gives an idea of how the lowest module of the framework can capture raw MAC frames using the packet sockets API. |
