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Modeling Medium Access Control Protocols

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In this chapter we illustrate how to develop models for several medium access control (MAC) protocols that are commonly used in computer communications.

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Gebali, F. (2015). Modeling Medium Access Control Protocols. In: Analysis of Computer Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15657-6_10

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