Abstract:MAC layers of today's wireless systems have evolved into complex state-machines, and are characterized by strict timeliness requirements and high computational demands. MAC protocols are generally viewed as sequential extended state-machines and therefore MAC parallelization has not yet been widely considered. In this paper, we show that MAC execution efficiency can be substantially increased by exploiting parallelism and by providing the necessary hardware-software support. In particular, we enable dual-proce… Show more
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