Distributed Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks

by Ping Wang and Weihua Zhuang

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 algorithm are presented to provide guaranteed QoS for voice traffic and, at the same time, increase the voice capacity significantly compared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461466016
• ISBN13: 9781461466017
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"