EXTENSIONS TO DISTRIBUTED MAC PROTOCOLS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING RTS/CTS EXCHANGES

摘要

In a communications network having a plurality of stations and a shared commoncommunications medium using a collision avoidance media access protocol forcommunication between the stations; in which medium access is granted to a pair ofstations obtaining a successful reservation of the medium; the pair of stations comprisinga requester station and a target station, the requester station comprises a primary station,and the target station comprises a secondary station; wherein the primary stationcoordinates communication to the secondary station; a method of maintaining thereservation in the event a transmission of a frame of data is received from a third stationnot participating in the reservation comprising: each station participating in the reservationexamining all received frames to determine the transmitter address thereof; ignoringframes transmitted from a non-participating station continuing with the reservation.