Policing mechanism for resource limited wireless MAC processors

摘要

A policing mechanism 100 for a resource limited wireless MAC processor. The policing function is enforced at both the host software and embedded firmware. The responsibility of the policer on the host prevents ill behaved flows from flooding the firmware and thus blocking other flows. The policer on the firmware prevents users with bad channels from occupying the channel with low rate transmissions/retransmissions and thus blocking others from transmission.