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found: Feldman, P.M. Emerging commercial mobile wireless technology and standards, 1998:p. 68 (In a multiple-access system, users transmit information (e.g., voice or data) to one another using a shared communications medium ... A multiple-access protocol is an algorithm that coordinates user transmissions, including transmission of new packets and resolutions of collisions (for protocols that permit collisions))
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found: International journal of network management, 2001:v. 11, p. 337 (A multiple access protocol is a scheme to control the access to a shared communication medium ... among various users)
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