ALOHA协议简介

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ALOHA网络的历史背景

One of the early computer networking designs, development of the ALOHA network was begun in September 1968 at the University of Hawaii under the leadership of Norman Abramson along with Thomas Gaarder, Franklin Kuo, Shu Lin, Wesley Peterson and Edward Wheldon. The goal was to use low-cost commercial radio equipment to connect users on Oahu and the other Hawaiian islands with a central time-sharing computer on the main Oahu campus. The first packet broadcasting unit went into operation in June 1971. Terminals were connected to a special purpose “terminal connection unit” using RS-232 at 9600 bit/s.[11]

以上摘自维基百科，简要概括一下：ALOHA最初在1968年由夏威夷大学的一个团队所设计。AlOHA目的是要用低成本的商业无线电设备进行Oahu与夏威夷其它岛屿的无线通信（通过一台部署在Oahu的时分计算机上）。ALOHAnet 最重要的贡献在于其利用共享介质来进行终端的传输。ALOHAnet 全部的终