CARRIER-SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS/COLLISION DETECTION

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Carrier sense multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD) is a refinement of carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA) in which a station ceases transmission if it detects a collision using a collision detect (CD) algorithm. It is the most common of the access strategies for bus architectures.


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

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