| has gloss | eng: Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance for Wireless (MACAW) is a slotted Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol widely used in Ad-hoc networks . Furthermore, it is foundation of many other MAC protocols used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) . It uses RTS-CTS-DS-DATA-ACK frame sequence for transferring data, sometimes preceded by an RTS-RRTS frame sequence, in view to provide solution to the hidden terminal problem. Although protocols based on MACAW, such as S-MAC, use carrier sense in addition to the RTS/CTS mechanism, MACAW does not make use of carrier sense. |
