On Aug 8, 2005, at 13:31, David P. Reed wrote:
> The MAC protocol in 802.11 is not ALOHA.  You'd best get the spec  
> if you really want to understand it, because it's pretty complex.
>
By the way, most IEEE 802.* standards are available in PDF
at no cost from this URL:
     http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/