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Collision Detection

Station must listen when transmitting
Collision of 0's must also be detected (Manchester encoding)
Minimum transmission time needed to detect collision
$2 * \tau$ where $\tau$ is time for signal between farthest stations
On 10 Mbps Ethernet 64 bytes (512 bit time) needed

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1999-03-14