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An Original Formal Description of the Low Layer Functioning of an Indoor Data Wireless LAN with Infrastructure for Mobile Stations

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This paper deals with a formal design developedwhile studying an indoor wireless network withinfrastructure. The transit of data frames betweendifferent communicating entities of this network,whether they be fixed and wired or mobile and wireless,can now be described. Since existing methods do not takeinto account the change in medium or the position ofmobile stations, three exchange planes, a set of symbols, and a script notion had to bedefined. A wireless network using diffused infraredshows the merits of these tools. In addition to thedescription of exchanges, this formal description allows a time limit to be set for exchanges used bydata frames on this kind of network. This approach is astep in the development cycle of protocols for wirelessnetworks.

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Misson, M., Val, T. An Original Formal Description of the Low Layer Functioning of an Indoor Data Wireless LAN with Infrastructure for Mobile Stations. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks 6, 23–36 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018827232371

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