meduim acess control in IEEE 802.15.4


-super frame structure

The MAC sublayer provides two services: the MAC data service and the MAC management service
interfacing to the MAC sublayer management entity (MLME) service access point (SAP) (MLMESAP).The MAC data service enables the transmission and reception of MAC protocol data units (MPDU) across the PHY data service.
The features of MAC sublayer are beacon management, channel access, GTS management,
frame validation, acknowledged frame delivery, association and disassociation.