... 2008, Article ID 598038, 10 pages doi :10. 115 5/2008/598038 Research Article Hybrid Polling Method for Direct Link Communication for IEEE 802. 11 Wireless LANs Woo-Yong ChoiDepartment of Industrial ... of IEEE 802. 11a, IEEE 802. 11b, and IEEE 802. 11g technologies support the max-imum PHY data rates of 54 Mbps, 11 Mbps, and 54 Mbps,respectively [2–4]. All these PHY variants of IEEE 802. 11 wireless ... interference range, the hybrid polling method is proposed for the direct link communication between STAs in IEEE 802. 11 infrastructure networks. By the proposed polling method, we can integrate...