In the last few years WLANs have become more and more popular, enabling
access to the Internet and to private or company-internal networks all over
the place. With the increasing amount of users sharing one and the same
medium, running demanding applications with the need of exchanging larger
and larger quantities of data, the necessity has grown to provide information
interchange with satisfactory quality of service (QoS). The latter property
requires among other things a MAC protocol enabling an efficient and fair
medium access for competing network participants. In this book, different
MAC...