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  <Title>TRANS FE R, GENE RAT I ON S WATASHI-WA HON-WO MOTSU ,,-..._./ S S AUX WATASHI-WA HON-WO MOTSU NAI MOTANAI</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> APPENDIX: Translation of a Sample Text.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> }((hC/.*ne: ,, a %~qem (or IOcai communlcat,on among computing statiOns Our experlmcn\[ai E.thcrnc; u~;.: ~ppcc coaxial eabl~ Io c~rn ~urlaoie-len~th dlgltal data packets among, for example, pcrsonai minicomputers, pr~nung f'aciliues, iar~C/ ~ie s~orage de,.~ces, magnetic r~pe backup stauons. lar~er cenlra! computers, and longer-haul communlcauor~ equzpment.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The ,~hared communicauon facilit.~, a branchm8 E~er. ~s passive. A sIauons E~heme~ interface connecL~ b,-sonalb through an interface cabie to a Lranscezver which in turn ~ps mLo the passing F/her 4 packet is hmadcas{ onto the F:'ther. is heard b.~ all smr/ons, and is cop~ed from the Er.her b.~ desunauons ~.hich soiL'c: ~! accorain~ to the packe:s leadm8 address bits. This ,s 0madc.~l packe: s~tching alld shouic be disunguzshec~ from s(ore-and-t'or~ard packe( switchin 8 m wh,ch muun9 ~ nerformed h~ mtermedmte pruccssm~ elements. To handle {he demand~ of ~,rowth. an F/heine! can be ex~ended usm@ packet repeaters (or signaJ regeneration, packe{ filters t'or crar~c locaJzzauon, an(~ p~ket gate~a.vs /'or intcmetwurk address extension.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Control is completeb dnstrioutea among stauons with packet transmissions coordinated ',nmugh sr, austical arbitration. Transmissions inl~ated b) a s~aoon defer ~o an)' which may' alread.~ be m progress. Once s~arted, if interference v,.:d~ ocher packe~ ~s detected, a transmission ts aborted and reschedu\[ed b;, ~LS source s~auon. A~er a certain period of interference-tree transmission, a packet is heard b.v all s\[aoons and will run to completion without interference. E~ernet controllers m colliding sauons each generate random retransrniss~on inten-ab to avoid repeated co\[iismns. The mean of a packer's retransmission inter, aiS is adjusted as a f~ncUon of co\]hsion histon. to keep Ether uulizauon near ~le opumum v.-,.h changing network load.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> E~en ~,nen transmuted w~thout source-detected interference, a packet may still not reach z~ destination w~thouz error: thus. packets are delivered only ~.~th high probabilio'. Scauons requmng a residual error rate lower than thai provided b.~ the bare Ethemet packet transport mechanism muSl follo~ mutually agreed upon packet protOcols.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> cCted from: MeCcalfe, R.M. and 8oggs, D.R. (1975): E~hernec: D1scrlbuced Packec~</Paragraph>
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