Table of contents: Pt. I. WPANS and 802.15.4 1. Prologue: Wireless Personal Area Networks 2. Operation of the IEEE 802.15.4 Network Pt. II. Single-Cluster Networks 3. Cluster with Uplink Traffic 4. Cluster with Uplink and Downlink Traffic 5. MAC Layer Performance Limitations 6. Activity Management through Bernoulli Scheduling 7. Admission Control Issues Pt. III. Multi-cluster Netw…