A collision is the situation that occurs when two or more demands are made simultaneously on equipment that can handle only one at any given instant.
[Source: from ]Federal Standard 1037C
Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, ...
and from MIL-STD-188
MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications.
Purpose
Faced with "past technical deficiencies in telecommunications systems and equipment and software…that were traced to basic inadequacies in the appl ...
It may refer to:
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Collision domain
A collision domain is a network segment (connected by a shared medium or through repeaters) where simultaneous data transmissions collide with one another as a result of more than one device attempting to send a packet on the network segment at t ...
, a physical network segment where data packets can "collide"
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Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance
Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) in computer networking, is a link layer multiple access method in which carrier sensing is used. Under CSMA/CA, nodes attempt to avoid collisions by beginning transmission only aft ...
, (CSMA/CA) used for example with wireless LANs
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Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection, (CSMA/CD) used with Ethernet
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Late collision
Late or LATE may refer to:
Everyday usage
* Tardy, or late, not being on time
* Late (or the late) may refer to a person who is dead
Music
* ''Late'' (The 77s album), 2000
* Late (Alvin Batiste album), 1993
* Late!, a pseudonym used by Dave Groh ...
, a specific type of collision that should not occur on properly operating networks
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Local collision
Local may refer to:
Geography and transportation
* Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand
* Local, Missouri, a community in the United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Local'' (comics), a limited series comic book by Bria ...
is a collision that occurs in the network interface rather than on the network itself
See also
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Collision (disambiguation)
A collision is an isolated event in which two or more bodies exert relatively strong forces on each other for a relatively short time.
Collision may also refer to:
Films
* Collision (1932 film), ''Collision'' (1932 film), a 1932 British crime ...
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Contention (telecommunications)
In statistical time division multiplexing, contention is a media access method that is used to share a broadcast medium. In contention, any computer in the network can transmit data at any time (first come-first served).
This system breaks down ...
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Telecommunications engineering