What is macaw?

MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LAN’s MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LAN’s

Does macaw have a signifi-cantly different algorithm?

Using packet-level simulations, we examine various per- formance and design issues in such protocols, Our analysis leads to a new protocol, MACAW, which uses an RTS-CTS- DS-DATA-ACK message exchange and includes a signifi- cantly different backoff algorithm. 1Introduction

What is maca Media Access Protocol?

We start with the MACA media access protocol first proposed by Karn [9] and later refined by Biba [3] which uses an RTS- CTS-DATA packet exchange and binary exponential back- off.

Is the maca algorithm available for use in Parc wireless LAN?

able for use in PARC’s wireless LAN. The MACA algorithm, detads unspecified. version. Appendix A gives the pseudo-code we used to implement MACA.