CIS 1200 Lecture 76: 7b (1)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

This is most often used in p2p networks each computer on the bus network can communicate with every other computer on the network directly. All computer and peripheral devices see all the packets on the network, but only process the packets with their address. A limitation of bus networks is that data collisions can occur easily if two computers transmit data at the same time because a bus network is essentially composed of one main communication medium (single cable) An access method is established to control which computer is allowed to use the transmission media at a certain time. The data is a broadcast throughout the network to all devices connected to the network. The data is broken down into small segments called packets (each packet contains the address of the computer or peripheral device to which is it being sent)