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Binary Exponential Backoff

Distributed bus abritration mechanism

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Upon collision detection

JAM signal for others also to know.
On th collision wait for $0 \leq X \leq (2^i - 1) * 51.2 \mu sec$ before next attempt for $0 \leq i \leq 16$ .
$X = 0, 51.2\mu s, 2 * 51.2 \mu s, ...$

1999-03-14