Network Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for network engineers. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
Considering two separate analog signals on the same frequency transmitting digital data that represents a frame, from my understanding if any portion of the two signals overlap, this is a collision.
Then would a longer frame, due to it occupying more space, increase the probability of a collision?
In the simplest terms, if the systems don't have any carrier sense mechanisms, then yes. Longer transmit times increase the probability.
But in Ethernet, with CSMA/CD, stations check whether the medium is free before attempting to transmit. So a station will not transmit if the media is occupied. The probability of a collision is a function of the propagation delay of the medium. That's independent of the frame length.
