Statistical contention control for star configured communication networks
US4531238A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 3, 1981 |
| Grant date | Jul 23, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 3, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L12/44
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An active repeater for a star configured communications network includes a threshold detector for collision detection. Whenever two or more terminals simultaneously feed data into the repeater, a threshold sensitive collision detector is triggered to logically isolate the data from the output of the repeater and to logically substitute a predetermined collision signal therefor, thereby causing the competing terminals to reset to retry the transmissions at randomly selected later times.
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