Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks

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Year: 1976  ·  Venue: Communications of the ACM  ·  Authors: Robert Metcalfe, David Boggs

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Abstract

A shared coaxial cable, carrier sensing, and randomized backoff. Fifty years later, the name survives every technology inside it being replaced.

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