The medium access control sublayer

Author

Litwin, Louis

Volume

20

Issue

4

fYear

2001

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

34

Abstract

The authors begin by giving a brief overview of the physical layer, the data link layer, the network layer, the transport layer and the application layer, before going on to discuss the MAC sublayer (a subset of the data link layer) in more detail. Static allocation protocols are considered as are FDM, TDM, dynamic allocation protocols, ALOHA, CSMA, reservation protocols, wireless network protocols and MACA (multiple access with collision avoidance). The paper concludes by mentioning the IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.4 standards as examples

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; frequency division multiplexing; telecommunication standards; time division multiplexing; ALOHA; CSMA; FDM; IEEE 802.3 standard; IEEE 802.4 standard; MAC sublayer; MACA; TDM; application layer; data link layer; dynamic allocation protocols; medium access control sublayer; multiple access with collision avoidance; network layer; physical layer; reservation protocols; static allocation protocols; transport layer; wireless network protocols; Access protocols; Application software; Broadcasting; Delay; Electronic mail; IP networks; Large-scale systems; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Potentials, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-6648

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/45.969594

Filename

969594