ALOHA

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Communications Systems — Multiple access — Aloha

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A multiple-access technique by which a number of terminals can access a shared transmission media. Possibly the simplest of all multiple-access techniques in which a station transmits whenever it wants to send data. Any unacknowledged transmissions are repeated.


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Aloha include: 
 
  • Demand-assigned multiple access (DAMA)
  • Carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA)
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  • Fixed-assigned multiple access (FAMA)
  • Time-division multiple access (TDMA)
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  • Frequency-division multiple access (FDMA)
  • Access Technique

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