Collision avoidance is the maintenance of systems and practices designed to prevent vehicles such as cars, trains, ships, and airplanes from colliding with other vehicles. Examples include: ...
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[networking] In computer networking and telecommunication, collision avoidance methods try to avoid resource contention by attempting to avoid simultaneous attempts to access the same resource. Collision avoidance methods include prior scheduling of timeslots, carrier detection schemes, randomized access times, and exponential backoff after...
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[spacecraft] In spaceflight, collision avoidance is the process of preventing a spacecraft from colliding with any other vehicle or object. ==Launch Windows== Collision avoidance, or COLA, is a concern during spaceflight launch windows. A launch window is said to have a COLA blackout period during intervals when the vehicle cannot lift off ...
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(from the article `navigation`) For these pathfinders, the danger of running into another vessel was negligible, but, as traffic expanded along established routes, collision ... To reduce the risk of collision and to allow other ships to follow, a ship under way at night displayed running lights by which sailors on nearby ... The fig...
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A Media Access Control (MAC) method in which any node maytake control of the network after taking certain steps to insure thatthe cable is not in use or about to be used by another node.
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