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Medium Access Control (MAC)

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In a wireless network, the communication medium is usually shared simultaneously by multiple users, and a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is used to arbitrate the sharing. This chapter focuses on the fundamental design issues of MAC protocols, and introduces a reference model used to describe various MAC protocols. The major references for this chapter include (Chandra et al., Wireless medium access control - a review, 1999, [1], Walke, Mobile radio networks: networking, protocols and traffic performance. Wiley, New York, 2002, [2], Jiang, Proceedings ACM international conference underwater networks & systems (WUWNet), 2015, [3]).

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    This MAC reference model is mainly used to describe various MAC protocols proposed for UWANs, and the readers can skip this part to learn MAC protocols proposed for RF wireless networks.

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Jiang, S. (2018). Medium Access Control (MAC). In: Wireless Networking Principles: From Terrestrial to Underwater Acoustic. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7775-3_3

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