Distributed Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks

• Main Authors: Wang, Ping (Author), Zhuang, Weihua (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

This brief investigates distributed medium access control (MAC) with QoS provisioning for both single- and multi-hop wireless networks including wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless ad hoc networks, and wireless mesh networks. For WLANs, an efficient MAC scheme and a call admission control...