Wireless is a half-duplex medium. Unlike Ethernet, wireless devices must contend for air time to transmit their frames. To avoid collisions, there are a number of mechanisms used: Physical Carrier Sense Virtual Carrier Sense a Coordination Function In this episode, I go over these mechanisms and describe their purpose. Here is a screenshot of a […]

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