Table of Contents - Chapter 8 |
LAN Technologies And Network Topology
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| 8.1 |
Introduction |
101 |
| 8.2 |
Direct Point-to-Point Communication |
102 |
| 8.3 |
Shared Communication Channels |
104 |
| 8.4 |
Significance Of LANs And Locality Of Reference |
104 |
| 8.5 |
LAN Topologies |
105 |
| 8.5.1 |
Star Topology |
105 |
| 8.5.2 |
Ring Topology |
106 |
| 8.5.3 |
Bus Topology |
107 |
| 8.5.4 |
The Reason For Multiple Topologies |
107 |
| 8.6 |
Example Bus Network: Ethernet |
108 |
| 8.6.1 |
History Of The Ethernet |
108 |
| 8.6.2 |
Ethernet Transmission And Manchester Encoding |
108 |
| 8.6.3 |
Sharing On An Ethernet |
109 |
| 8.7 |
Carrier Sense On Multi-Access Networks (CSMA) |
110 |
| 8.8 |
Collision Detection And Backoff With CSMA/CD |
110 |
| 8.9 |
802.11b Wireless LANs And CSMA/CA |
112 |
| 8.10 |
Another Example Bus Network: LocalTalk |
113 |
| 8.11 |
Ring Topology And Token Passing |
114 |
| 8.12 |
Self-Healing Token Passing Networks |
115 |
| 8.13 |
Example Star Network: ATM |
117 |
| 8.14 |
Summary |
118 |
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Exercises |
119 |
