This paper proposes, a hardware implementation of Wireless Mesh Networks
(WMN) medium Access Controller (MAC) layer transmitter. In the literature a lot
of works are focused on WMN routing protocol as well as performance analysis
and software integration of WMN units, however few works deals with WMN
hardware implementation. In this field our contribution is to conceive and to
implements on FPGA a WMN MAC transmitter module. Our implementation, written in
hardware description language (HDL) is based on the IEEE 802.11 s standard.
Wireless sensors networks performance are strictly related to the medium
access mechanism. An effective one, require non-conventional paradigms for
protocol design due to several constraints. An adequate equilibrium between
communication improvement and data processing capabilities must be
accomplished. To achieve low power operation, several MAC protocols already
proposed for WSN. The aim of this paper is to survey and to analyze the most
energy efficient MAC protocol in order to categorize them and to compare their
performances.