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, a ...
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 applicat ...
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
Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) in computer networking, is a network multiple access method in which carrier sensing is used, but nodes attempt to avoid collisions by beginning transmission only after the channe ...
, (CSMA/CA) used for example with wireless LANs
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Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection
Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) is a medium access control (MAC) method used most notably in early Ethernet technology for local area networking. It uses carrier-sensing to defer transmissions until no other stati ...
, (CSMA/CD) used with Ethernet
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Late collision
Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) is a medium access control (MAC) method used most notably in early Ethernet technology for local area networking. It uses carrier-sensing to defer transmissions until no other statio ...
, a specific type of collision that should not occur on properly operating networks
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Local collision
Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) is a medium access control (MAC) method used most notably in early Ethernet technology for local area networking. It uses carrier-sensing to defer transmissions until no other station ...
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
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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