“Taking Turns” MAC protocols

channel partitioning MAC protocols:

• share channel efficiently at high uniform load
• inefficient at low load: delay in channel access, 1/N bandwidth allocated even if only 1 active node!

Random access MAC protocols

• efficient at low load: single node can fully utilize channel
• high load: collision overhead

“taking turns” protocols

look for best of both worlds!

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