Contention
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Contention may refer to:
Contention may also refer to:
- The main contention, in rhetoric, the main point being argued
- Resource contentionResource contentionIn computer science, resource contention is a conflict over access to a shared resource such as random access memory, disk storage, cache memory, internal busses or external network devices....
, a general concept in communications and computing, is competition by users of a system for the facility at the same time:- Contention (telecommunications)Contention (telecommunications)In packet mode communication networks, contention is a media access method that is used to share a broadcast medium.-Collision detection and recovery:...
, a channel access method - The contention ratioContention ratioIn computer networking, the contention ratio is the ratio of the potential maximum demand to the actual bandwidth. The higher the contention ratio, the greater the number of users that may be trying to use the actual bandwidth at any one time and, therefore, the...
, in computer networking, competition that applies specifically to the number of people connected to an ISP who share a set amount of bandwidth - Lock contention, in computer science, where a mutual exclusion lock reduces the throughput by hindering the concurrency of a program
- Bus contentionBus contentionBus contention, in computer design, is an undesirable state of the bus in which more than one device on the bus attempts to place values on the bus at the same time. Most bus architectures require their devices follow an arbitration protocol carefully designed to make the likelihood of contention...
, in computer design, where multiple devices on a computer bus attempt to use it at the same time
- Contention (telecommunications)
Contention may also refer to:
- Contention City, ArizonaContention City, ArizonaContention City or Contention is a ghost mining town in Cochise County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. It was occupied from the early-1880s through the late-1880s in what was then known as the Arizona Territory...
, a ghost town in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, sometimes referred to simply as Contention, Arizona.