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IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES)

Modeling Medium Access Control (MAC) by Quantum Methods

Marton Berces, Sándor Imre

Published Sep 22, 2006• 5 citations
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Abstract

Medium access control (MAC) is an important part of wireless telecommunication systems. The main goal of a MAC protocol is to provide the best usage of the common resources for the users. One of these resources is typically the communication channel. By quantum informatics and computation - that gain more and more attention - some calculations and algorithms may become more efficient. The possible implementation of a quantum based system would lead us to great benefits, by applying it to an already existing problem. We give a model for medium access control via quantum methods

DOI
10.1109/ines.2006.1689388

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