Tag Archives: Ethernet

Ethernet basics

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Ethernet is one of the most successful pieces of technologies out there. It is inexpensive, and it was able to keep up with the speed race: 10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps, and 10Gbps, 100Gbps. Metcalfe designed the Ethernet protocol based on his … Continue reading →

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Multiple Access Control

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On a single broadcast channel (wireless channel, shared link, etc.), two or more simultaneous transmissions lead to interference. We thus need a distributed algorithm coordinating accesses to the channel. This distributed algorithm is realized by a multiple access control (MAC) … Continue reading →

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