654-664, May 1994. However, in a realistic situation where the receiver oriented protocol is employed and the packet loss due to interference cannot be ignored, they should be addressed at the same time. Thus we propose in this paper a medium access control protocol that considers both problems. In this section, we first summarize the major features of our new protocol and then compare it with the previously proposed ones. According to the description in Subsection 3.1, the major features of our new protocol are as follows.
Time is slotted for packet transmission.