Clear To Send: Wireless Network Engineering

CTS 041: 802.11 Medium Contention


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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 wireless frame showing the Duration value within the header. This Duration value is used to set a device’s NAV timer.

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* 802.11 Arbitration

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