access contention

Contention may refer to:Contention (telecommunications), a condition where two or more stations attempt to transmit at the same time over a shared channel.Resource contention, competition by users of a system for the facility at the same timeContention ratio, competition that applies specifically to the number of people connected to an ISP who share a set amount of bandwidthLock (computer science)#Granularity, in computer science a situation where keeping a mutual exclusion lock reduces the throughput by hindering concurrency of a programMain contention, the main point being argued for in informal logicBus contentionContention, Arizona, a ghost town in Cochise County in southeast Arizona.
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In ISDN applications, synonymous with "contention." See contention (def. #2).