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an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian; ciao is Italian)

an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian)

(From the Hawaiian greeting) A system ofcontention resolution devised at The University of Hawaii.Packets are broadcast when ready, the sender listens tosee if they collide and if so re-transmits after a randomtime. Slotted Aloha constrains packets to start at thebeginning of a time slot. Basic Aloha is appropriate to longpropagation time nets (e.g. satellite). For shorterpropagation times, carrier sense protocols are possible.