CSMA/CD

January 26th, 2008

CSMA/CD is a type of contention protocol.  It is known as a contention method because computers on the network contend, or compete, for an opportunity to send data.  CSMA/CD is a type of contention protocol that enables collision detection.  It is specified in the IEEE 802.  It’s also a modification of pure CSMA.  It is basically a network control protocol in which a carrier sensing scheme is used with collision detection.  It is acknowledged to be a simple and very efficient multiple access technique in wired networking, especially under heavy loads.  It is also is a set of rules dictating when hosts on an Ethernet segment can and cannot transmit data.  CSMA/CD is non-deterministic, which means the performance for any single station is essentially unpredictable.

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