Looking for 802.11 MAC & PHY Package

GNU Radio
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Dear Marcus and all,

Many thanks for the advice regarding the Hydra and ORBIT project.

Actually I’m looking for the open-source 802.11 PHY&MAC packages which
are
compatible with Recent GNU Radio and USRP N210/X310.

I’ve searched from internet and got some findings listed below:

  1. Hydra PHY & MAC from University of Texas at Austin [1]

  2. FTW IEEE802.11a/g/p OFDM Frame Encoder [2]

  3. UWICORE m-HOP 802.11 MAC for USRP based on the FTW PHY [3]
    http://www.uwicore.umh.es/mhop-software.html
    *** All (1-3) only compatible with gnuradio-3.2.2 which was too many
    years
    ago.

  4. WIME IEEE 802.11a/g/p Transceiver for GNU Radio v3.7 [3]
    gr-ieee802-11 - Distributed Embedded Systems
    *** This is a most recent package for gnuradio 3.7, but is PHY only. Are
    there any MAC package which compatible with this WIME PHY?

  5. ORBIT Project [5]
    *** This is a huge project which can be studied. Are there any project
    provide both 802.11 MAC & PHY like Hydrd did before?

Best regards,
Jiayi

[1] K. Mandke, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Gibeom Kim, R. Grant, R. Daniels, Wonsoo
Kim, R. W. Heath, Jr., and S. Nettles, “Early Results on Hydra: A
Flexible
MAC/PHY Multihop Testbed,” Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Tech. Conf. , pp.
1896-1900, Dublin, Ireland, April 23 – 25, 2007.
[2] http://www.cgran.org/wiki/ftw80211ofdmtx
[3] J.R. Gutierrez-Agullo, B. Coll-Perales and J. Gozalvez, “An IEEE
802.11
MAC Software Defined Radio Implementation for Experimental Wireless
Communications and Networking Research”, Proceedings of the 2010
IFIP/IEEE
Wireless Days (WD’10), 20-22 October 2010, Venice (Italy).
[4] Bastian B., Michele Segata, Christoph Sommer and Falko
Dressler,
“An IEEE 802.11a/g/p OFDM Receiver for GNU Radio,” Proceedings of ACM
SIGCOMM 2013, 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop of Software Radio Implementation
Forum (SRIF 2013), Hong Kong, China, August 2013, pp. 9-16.
[5] http://www.orbit-lab.org/

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Marcus Müller [email protected]

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Hi Jiayi,

:slight_smile: gr-ieee802-11 is, as far as I know, the most comprehensive,
functional implementation so far. It can talk to consumer cards – but
of course, that’s not because it has a complete MAC implementation.
Actually, doing a really standards-compliant IEEE802.11agp MAC can’t
really be done in host software alone – the gigabit ethernet interface
alone just has too much latency, and you’ll have to be really fast when
detecting ACK’s, calculating checksums and sending out the reply. I
doubt you can implement a fully working IEEE802.11 MAC in software alone
without touching the FPGA.

Here’s the official source code:
GitHub - bastibl/gr-ieee802-11: IEEE 802.11 a/g/p Transceiver has the source code, btw.

Greetings,
Marcus