Resources:

Wireless Ethernet (IEEE 802.11), WiFi:

• A gentle introduction - Microsoft's How 802.11 Wireless Works.
• An explanation of 802.11 collision avoidance, associations, and security - CITS3231 lecture notes.
• The June 2007 IEEE 802.11 formal specification -
  Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications (warning, 15MB, 1184 pages).
  Section 7, on MAC frame formats, is the most relevant to our discussions.

Wireless Sensor Networks:

• Lecture summary and slides presented by Rachel Cardell-Oliver: summary and slides.
• Paper to be read before Rachel's 2nd lecture: The Broadcast Storm Problem in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network , by Sze-Yao Ni, etal,
  International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking, Seattle, Washington, pp151-162, 1999, 1-58113-142-9.
• Tutorial materials for Rachel's 2nd lecture - Java simulator and the Flooding tutorial sheet .