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 applicati ...
It may refer to:
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Collision domain
In physics, a collision is any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. Although the most common use of the word ''collision'' refers to incidents in which two or more objects collide with great fo ...
, a physical network segment where data packets can "collide"
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Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance, (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, a specific type of collision that should not occur on properly operating networks
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Local collision 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), a 1932 British crime film
* ''Collision'' ...
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Contention (telecommunications)
References
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Telecommunications engineering