Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) - CISE

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Slave state (slave side)
Transition event
Slave actions associated to the state
4.3 FRAME FORMATS
No response to/ No reception of
Alive Polling tokens for
MAX_ALIVE_TOKENS*MAX_ALIVE_POLL_INTERVAL
Unregistered
Registered
Figure 28 Slave states – Slave side
The slave shall only reply to
access frames as required by
the access protocol
Access protocol
process completed
The slave shall never reply to access
frames from its master. It might answer access
frames from another master if it wishes to change
of master.
A frame corresponds to an MPDU passed by the MAC layer to the PHY layer. There are two types of MPDUs:
regular MPDUs and Channel Estimation MPDUs.
Regular MPDUs can encapsulate bursts provided by the LLC layer.
Channel Estimation MPDUs are directly triggered by the MAC layer; they carry a specific signal sequence
generated by the PHY layer: Channel Estimation MPDUs do not encapsulate any burst provided by the LLC
layer.
Regular MPDU:
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