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This book, which is derived from my master thesis, presents a self-organizing medium access protocol called A3C. It was especially designed for aeronautical air-air communication. The book provides a detailed description of A3C, including a solution to the hidden station problem. Beside this, the book also provides a general overview of existing wireless medium access protocols and digital aeronautical communication. At the end of the text preliminary simulation results, dealing with A3C´s overall performance, are presented.

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Rudolf Dittrich studied Computer Sciences at the University of Salzburg where he received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2009. He is interested in operating systems, communication systems and protocols and in software development. He is currently working as a software developer.

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