highspeedwlan.ppt

Thanks for you attention Any question? * * To answer this question, let us look at the current MAC, which is known as DCF. Before sending out a frame (the shadowed part in the figure), a DIFS interval should be deferred first, then a randomized backoff process should precede the transmission, then a real transmission is started by transmitting a physical layer header. After sending the real information, a SIFS interval is deferred by the receiver before reponding with an ACK which is also preceded by a physical header. We call all the actions except that for transmitting the frame itself ‘ov