Review Article

Revisiting of Channel Access Mechanisms in Mobile Wireless Networks through Exploiting Physical Layer Technologies

Figure 11

A simple example when SIC is applied in WLAN. The three clients transmit their data packets to the AP simultaneously. Through adjusting the transmission power carefully, the receiving power of the three packets , , and can satisfy the SIC decoding requirement, making all the three packets decoded successfully.
(a) The scenario
(b) The received packets at AP
(c) Receiving power comparison