MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL LAYER BRIDGING OF A REAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE TO A SIMULATED NETWORK

摘要

Systems and methods for media access control (MAC) layer bridging of a real communication device to a simulated network are described herein. Some illustrative embodiments include a communication network bridge that includes a processor that executes simulation software that implements a simulated network and further implements a simulated network interface that provides a communication path to the simulated communication network, and a real network interface that provides a communication path to a real communication network. A first media access control (MAC) layer message that conforms to a protocol associated with the real communication network is received by the real network interface from across the real communication network. The first MAC layer message is transformed by a first transformation operation into a second MAC layer message that is forwarded to a physical (PHY) layer of the simulated network interface.