A wireless networked appliances MAC bridge

Abstract

Wireless networked appliances interoperability is a huge concern for the connected user who would be equipped with many mobile devices and deals with many other appliances at home and office. Interworking the domains where these devices are operating, being, the wireless local area network (WLAN) and the wireless personal area network (WPAN) is a major interoperability challenge since each was designed to support different profiles, life styles and needs. We introduce the wireless networked appliances MAC Bridge as an interoperability solution that interworks these domains below the MAC service boundary creating a single interoperable domain that allows applications to run seamlessly in the upper layers. We define the bridge's internal sublayer services and its protocol primitives. We propose a buffering and filtering functionality to dissolve the boundaries between the protocols operations and create interoperable frames according to the bridging-protocol relay entities.