With _____ the two computers that caused the collision each wait a different amount of time before listening again to the medium and starting the process over again.
A) CSMA/CD
B) CSMA/CA
C) polling
D) mesh

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CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection) is a protocol used in Ethernet networks to avoid collisions. With CSMA/CD, when two computers try to transmit at the same time and a collision occurs, both computers stop transmitting and wait for a random amount of time before trying again. This random waiting time ensures that the two computers do not try to transmit at the same time again. CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance), on the other hand, is used in wireless networks to avoid collisions by having each device wait for a clear channel before transmitting. Polling is a method of network access in which the central node sends a request for data to one or more nodes, which respond with the requested data. Mesh is a networking topology in which each node connects directly to every other node, forming a mesh-like structure.

With _____ the Two Computers That Caused the Collision Each