CARRIER-SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS

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Information on Carrier-sense Multiple Access (CSMA)

Carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA) is a medium access control technique for multiple-access transmission media. A station wishing to transmit first senses the medium and transmits only if the medium is idle.


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Carrier-sense multiple access include: 
 
  • multiple access
  • frequency-division multiple access (FDMA)
  • time-division multiple access (TDMA)
  • code-division multiple access (CDMA)
  • frequency hopping (FH)
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  • carrier-sense multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD)
  • carrier-sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)
  • token ring
  • Demand-assigned multiple access (DAMA)
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  • Fixed-assigned multiple access (FAMA)
  • Aloha
  • Collision detection (CD)
  • Collision avoidance (CA)
  • Access Technique

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