Used in 802.11 infrastructure mode: handles management frames for a station (STA). Relies on the MAC layer (Ieee80211Mac) for reception and transmission of frames.

This variant is a very simplistic: the AP address and channel is preconfigured, there is no scanning, authentication or association. Only data frames are understood or sent at any time.

This module never switches channels, that is, it will operate on the channel the physical layer is configured for (see channelNumber in Ieee80211Radio).

Author: Andras Varga

Inheritance diagram

The following diagram shows inheritance relationships for this type. Unresolved types are missing from the diagram.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default value	Description
accessPointAddress	string		MAC address of associate AP
macModule	string		The path to the MAC module

Properties

Name	Value	Description
display	i=block/cogwheel

Gates

Name	Direction	Size	Description
upperLayerIn	input
upperLayerOut	output
macIn	input
macOut	output
agentIn	input		unused dummy to statisfy the IIeee80211Mgmt interface
agentOut	output		unused dummy to statisfy the IIeee80211Mgmt interface

Source code

//
// Used in 802.11 infrastructure mode: handles management frames for a station (STA).
// Relies on the MAC layer (~Ieee80211Mac) for reception and transmission of frames.
//
// This variant is a very simplistic: the AP address and channel is preconfigured,
// there is no scanning, authentication or association. Only data frames are
// understood or sent at any time.
//
// This module never switches channels, that is, it will operate on the channel
// the physical layer is configured for (see channelNumber in ~Ieee80211Radio).
//
// @author Andras Varga
//
simple Ieee80211MgmtSTASimplified like IIeee80211Mgmt
{
    parameters:
        string accessPointAddress; // MAC address of associate AP
        string macModule;               // The path to the MAC module
        @display("i=block/cogwheel");
    gates:
        input upperLayerIn;
        output upperLayerOut;
        input macIn @labels(Ieee80211Frame);
        output macOut @labels(Ieee80211Frame);
        input agentIn @loose;   // unused dummy to statisfy the IIeee80211Mgmt interface
        output agentOut @loose; // unused dummy to statisfy the IIeee80211Mgmt interface
}

File: src/inet/linklayer/ieee80211/mgmt/Ieee80211MgmtSTASimplified.ned

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