observe every day more and more devices are using this relatively new form of communication. The increasing density of wireless-enabled devices, and their increasing communication demands urges a reliable and efficient -not only effective- under layer to assure that all demands from all services/applications used by a user are satisfied. This under layer is called the MAC layer, corresponding to a sub-layer at the data-link level from the OSI Reference Model, and in this layer, a device controls its access to the medium; the channel. There exist several protocols that mediate channel access such as TDMA and CSMA. TDMA Protocol (Time Division Multiple Access) is a very well known protocol that aims to make the channel allocation fair to all participants. This is why the authors of the paper "Self-synchronizing properties of CSMA wireless multi-hop networks" proposed an idea of a self-synchronizing CSMA algorithm, which is supposed to be capable of achieving the synchronization and follow-the-schedule part from the TDMA protocol but without message passing or regular clock synchronization. The principal motivation for this work is to implement and test the proposed algorithm.

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