CSMA/CD

Short for Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection, CSMA/CD is rules defining how network devices respond when two devices attempt to use a data channel simultaneously and encounter a data collision. The CSMA/CD rules define how long the device should wait if a collision occurs one or more times.

Also see: Ethernet, Network definitions

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