ITEC 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethernet Frame, Lightning, Frame Check Sequence
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Rules to decide which computer transmit and when. If multi point circuit is used which is shared circuit, simultaneous transmission cannot be done at the same time, the wait in multi-point increases the response time. If switches are used at the access layer, distribution layer and routers at core level. Point-to-point: any computer on network can send and receive at the same time, this is ideal approach because of performance particularly response time. Hubs or access point: can send and receive at the same time. Contention access: while computer is transmitting, no other computer can transmit because the collisions might happen. Two computers can start transmitting at the same time, which is not acceptable. The receiver node replies with a packet called cts. After the transmitter node receives the cts packet, it transmits the data packets. Encoded within the rts/cts packets is a duration field. In both case, there is centralized controller such as access point.