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In a wireless network, nodes share one or more radio channels. The nodes get packets to transmit from the application and transmit them hop by hop to their destination. For instance, one user may be downloading a file from another node; two other users might be engaged in a Skype call.
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Jiang, L., Walrand, J. (2010). Introduction. In: Scheduling and Congestion Control for Wireless and Processing Networks. Synthesis Lectures on Learning, Networks, and Algorithms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-79992-1_1
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