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This is continuation of previous lecture where MAC protocols are covered in brief.
Taking turns
Let's now describe various methods to achieve turn taking.
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polling:
- master invites slaves to transmit data
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token rings:
- control token passed from node to node
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
Protocol to determine MAC address on a given device in a network.
Upon association the protocol will emplace an entry into the target device's arp table
where we record MAC and IP address associations.
Wireless links
Interference: everything will cause interference which means we expect interference.
Primarily for wireless connections: Code Division Multiple Access(asynchronus kinda)
CDMA
Each node receives a code which it uses to splice transmissions across the wireless link. Each node may transmit data at an arbitrary rate since the transmissions splice into each other forming a consistent signal cumulatively.