Talk:Contention (telecommunications)

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[edit] Why this article was created

E_dog95' wrote in the channel access talk page: We do have various Ethernet, 802.3, and CSMA/CA articles, but nothing specifically on the concept of contention. The contention disambiguation page, until today, had multiple "red link" entries.

I discovered this after coming across Contention free pollable and realizing there hasn't been anything written to define contention yet. I don't like to add red links normally, but in this case I'm going to change the contention (disambiguation) link on this article to point to the yet-to-be-made Contention (telecommunications). E_dog95 Hi 22:55, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Good point! Actually someone removed large portions of the telecommunications part of the original contention article. I have now removed your redirect of the Contention (telecommunications) article to CSMA/CD, copied text from the 10 November 2006 version of the contention article into it. However, this text was not very concrete, and did not mention multiple access. I have also added concrete examples of contention based multiple access protocols to the article. The definition of contention based Multiple access should be stated.
Is contention only about multiple access (as stated in the current version of the Contention article), or can it be used in other telecom areas (as implied by the text I copied to the Contention (telecommunications) article)?
We don't have an article on the concept of random multiple access either. Is that always the same thing as contention based multiple access?
Perhaps the discusion can continue on the Contention (telecommunications) talk page.
87.227.68.21 10:29, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Good deal! I came in after I made my initial comments & decided to make that redirect. This is great. Thanks for your help :D E_dog95 Hi 23:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)