When talking of an IEEE 802.3 environment, then these services are provided to the Logical Link Control (LLC) layer ... we can break this functionality down and say that this layer provides two major ...

A host processor can control the operation of the core via a slave interface that provides access to its control and status registers ... as the controller core supports the Media Independent ...

While the convention in describing protocol options is to start at the bottom and work your way up, with WLANs it is easier to start at Layer 2 and work your way down. In this chapter we will describe ...