On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:44:52AM +0100, Kai Schulte wrote:
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> Sounds good, I hadn't thought about that - sorry. At least it's good
> if link turnaround times are small. But how will it know for how long
> the receiver will be busy? Does it wait for that station to send
> an ack or do the RTS and the CTS transmissions contain the length of
> the data that is to be transmitted?
>
While answering to RTS central station sends required amount of time
received with RTS packet in CTS packet so everyone should delay any
transmition for that amount of time.
> Yes, all I found when I searched today was rather short summaries.
> Is the original document available anywhere on the net or is it one
> of the many standards that should never become a standard because the
> information is not free?
>
I also tried to find it but it is only available for couple hundred $$$.
Some of it can be found on web pages of IEEE 802.11 compatible cards
manufacturers like e.g. BreezeCom .
GL,
Ivo.
