ieee 802 Wireless LAN Technology Topic - Important Technical Indicators of IEEE802.11 Protocol Monday, October 20, 2003 Advertisement Service - About Us - Website Introduction - User Registration - Your Message Your Location: Technology Topic > Wireless LAN Technology Topic This article was published on: August 2001 Important Technical Indicators of IEEE802.11 Protocol Since the transmission medium of wireless LAN (microwave, infrared) is not \"limited\" wired, there are some new technical difficulties objectively. For this reason, IEEE802.11 protocol stipulates some crucial technical mechanisms. 1. CSMA/CA Protocol We know that the standard protocol of bus-type LAN at the MAC layer is CSMA/CD, namely Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection. However, since it is not easy for the adapter of wireless products to detect whether there is a conflict in the channel, 802.11 has completely defined a new protocol, namely Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance CSMA/CA (with Collision Avoidance). On the one hand, carrier sensing - check whether the medium is idle; on the other hand, conflict avoidance - minimize the probability of signal conflict by waiting for a random time, and give priority to sending when the medium is detected to be idle. In addition, in order to make the system more stable, IEEE802.11 also provides CSMA/CA with confirmation frame ACK. Once it is interfered by other noise or fails to sense, signal conflict may occur, and this ACK working in the MAC layer can provide fast recovery capability at this time. 2. RTS/CTS protocol RTS/CTS protocol is a request to send/permit to send protocol, which is equivalent to a handshake protocol and is mainly used to solve the \"hidden terminal\" problem. \"Hidden Stations\" means that base station A sends information to base station B, and base station C does not detect that A also sends to B, so A and C send signals to B at the same time, causing signal conflict, and eventually the signal sent to B is lost. \"Hidden terminals\" often occur in large units (usually in outdoor environments), which will lead to efficiency loss and require error recovery mechanisms. When it is necessary to transmit...
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