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| | MACA - A New Channel Access Method for Packet Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | In the exposed terminal case (figure 2), a well-sited station X can hear far away station Y. Even though X is too far from Y to interfere with its traffic to other nearby stations, X will defer to it unnecessarily, thus wasting an opportunity to reuse the channel locally. |
 | | However, collisions are not a major problem on Localtalk; the network is physically small, carrier sensing is fairly rapid, the data rate is relatively low, and (if the network is properly built) there are no hidden terminals. |
 | | Conversely, when exposed terminals exist, presence of carrier doesn't always mean that it's bad to transmit. |
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