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Abstract

With advanced compute capabilities and growing convergence of various wireless standards, it is desired to run multiple wireless standards on a single hardware together. Embodiments are disclosed for lower MAC protocol processing across multiple wireless standards and multiple radios. A common hardware may be used for processing lower MAC flows across multiple wireless standards, e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, or 5G NR, multiple radios within a wireless standard, multiple users within a wireless standard, and/or different directions of radio. The implementation may support partial data processing of a flow, switching across flows, and context saving/restoring of flows. Furthermore, for better performance, looking ahead of flows and prefetching of context and data may also be implemented. Embodiments of the present patent disclosure may result in a very area-efficient and power-efficient hardware implementation for lower MAC protocol processing.

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