CSMA: Carrier Sense Multiple Access)

CSMA: listen before transmit:

• If channel sensed idle: transmit entire pkt

• If channel sensed busy, defer transmission

  • Persistent CSMA: retry immediately with probability p when channel becomes idle (may cause instability)
  • Non-persistent CSMA: retry after random interval

• human analogy: don’t interrupt others!

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