Improving Wireless PAN Support
summary
Adds missing IEEE 802.15.4 MAC management: implements MLME scanning, beaconing and association in the Linux stack with new netlink commands and a user tool based on iw (the iwpan tool). Introduces a coordinator subinterface, supports passive and active scans, configurable beacon order, and updates address filters for associations. Patch series runs ~60–70 patches (first ~10 on mailing list, full work on GitHub). Demo uses three 802.15.4 USB sticks plus a Zephyr Arduino Nano BLE and Wireshark — scans, associates, disassociates and shows frames successfully.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:47Functional description
- 3:37The MAC sublayer
- 8:01Discovery
- 10:22Beacon enabled PANS
- 18:05PAN ID conflicts
- 21:31Architecture
- 25:46Current state of the support
- 26:33The scanning interface 1/2
- 28:23The beaconing interface
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