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Distributed Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks

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In the past decade, with the advances of wireless technologies and the increasing demand for wireless communication services, a variety of wireless networks have been deployed, e.g., cellular networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and wireless mesh networks, etc. Among them, cellular networks and WLANs are the two most popular ones. Cellular networks can provide high-quality voice service with wide-area coverage and seamless roaming. Cellular networks evolve from the first generation (1G) based on analog technology, the second generation (2G) based on the digital technology, to the current third generation (3G) based on wideband code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology. The current 3G system supports a data rate up to 2 Mbps. The next generation (4G) has attracted much attention from academia, which is expected to provide multimedia services with much higher data rate [38].

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    In this book, we mostly focus on a multi-hop environment (i.e., a non-fully-connected network environment) but not a multi-hop flow.

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  2. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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Wang, P., Zhuang, W. (2013). Introduction. In: Distributed Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6602-4_1

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