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Definitions of medium access control:

• The networking protocol layer that is used to control transmission requests, authentication and other overheads in local area network. It is widely used in cellular telecommunications (mobile phone) applications.
  www.radio-electronics.com/info/cellulartelecomms/cellular_glossary/cellularglossary_k.php
• sublayer of the Link_Layer, which controls the access to the medium (arbitration, mastership transfer, polling)
  www.labs.it/rosin/glossary2.htm
• According to the IEEE 802 family of standards Media Access Control (MAC) is the lower sublayer of the OSI data link layer, the interface between a node's Logical Link Control and the network's physical layer. The MAC differs for the various physical media (such as Ethernet, token ring, WLAN).
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_access_control

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