Wireless LANs and CSMA
• Before transmitting, a sending station needs to
know if there is activity around the receiver
– Is CSMA/CD effective here?
• CSMA only tells if there is activity around the
sending station
– On guided (and shared) medium, only one
transmission can take place at any give time
• This is heard by all stations
– When using wireless, multiple transmissions can
occur simultaneously provided, that they all have
different destinations and these destinations are
“sufficiently” apart.
• All transmissions need not be heard by all stations
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