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Applied to wireless Local Area Networks, it can improve power consumption, bandwidth use, can provide quality of service support to different traffic classes
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Technology This invention introduces a new medium access control (MAC) protocol invented for high bandwidth wireless packet networks, such as IEEE 802.11a/b/g based wireless LANs. In general, the invention provides media access control in a communication network which includes multiple communication stations coupled over a shared communication medium. Key features include: Separation of random collision avoidance and contention resolution at MAC layer Collision avoidance with fixed back-off window size An efficient, adaptive fair rate control mechanism for contention resolution