RTS/CTS definition

RTS/CTS means Request to Send/Clear to Send;
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Examples of RTS/CTS in a sentence

  • At the MAC layer, RTS/CTS can be used to allocate the channel in CSMA protocols, in TDMA protocols the timeslots must be long enough.

  • At the MAC layer, RTS/CTS can be used to allocate the channel in CSMA protocols, whereas in TDMA protocols the timeslots must be long enough to complete an exchange.

  • THE FLOW CONTROL PARAMETER ComFile supports either No flow control, XON/XOFF flow control, or RTS/CTS flow control.

  • Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send mechanisms (RTS/CTS) have long been employed to mitigate the hidden terminal problem, but they suffer from high overhead in low-power sensor networks [PHC04], and are not often employed in practice.

  • Buffers a NMEA 2000 transport protocol (i.e. BAM, RTS/CTS) message for transmission.

  • For US Robotics and 3COM modems, it is recommended to NOTE: Be certain your PC’s modem settings enable hardware flow control ( RTS/CTS) (for US Robotics & 3COM modems, hardware flow control is enabled by including &H1 in the initialization string).

  • This is due to the inherent RTS/CTS like handshake mechanism in Strawman which mitigates hidden terminal problem.