Ad-hoc wireless networking: contention free multiple access using token passing

Discusses mobile broadband communications with project groups such as ETSI RES 10 and ESPRIT LAURA providing much of the input. The immediate application of such systems would hope to provide high speed data links for users within a small location area and as such would have to be capable of overcoming the significant problems that the radio channel imposes. The authors discuss LANs and MAC protocols.