Contention

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Contention may refer to:

  • Contention (telecommunications), a condition that arises when two or more data stations attempt to transmit at the same time over a shared channel, or when two data stations attempt to transmit at the same time in two-way alternate communication
  • Contention (telecommunications master station), in data communications when no station is designated a master station. In contention, each station must monitor the signals and wait for a quiescent condition before initiating a bid for master status.
  • Oversubscription, competition by users of a system for the facility at the same time
    • Contention ratio, competition that applies specifically to the number of people connected to an ISP who share a set amount of bandwidth
  • Lock (computer science)#Granularity, in computer science a situation where keeping a mutual exclusion lock reduces the throughput by hindering concurrency of a program
  • Main contention, the main point being argued for in informal logic
  • Bus contention
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