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Mechanism/purpose of the NAV and its relation to the exposed node problem in 802.11
I found the answer here IEEE 802.11 MAC Dictionary
here is the relevant section
NAV (Virtual carrier sense)
It is interesting that the RTS set its NAV covering to the end of whole RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK ...
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