Ethernet The most popular LAN technology Open Standard Open and wide market
Ethernet 1970: Xerox in PARC, Robert M. Metcalfe, David Boggs, Charles Thacker, Butler Lampson Experimental Ethernet, 3Mbps 1979: Formal specifications DIX (DEC- Intel-Xerox). 10Mbps 1985: “IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD” is published It has included new technologies periodically
Operation Stations connected to a SHARED MEDIUM No main controller Serial transmission to the medium, Manchester CSMA/CD Colissions
Shared Medium
BUS
Transmission in the BUS
Colission
Persistence and Non persistence 9
CSMA/CD Station ready for transmission Sense the Wait a random channel time (BEB) Busy Free Transmit listening Stop transmission and Start jam signal Collision End of transmission
MTU Maximum Transfer Unit Big frames are not good for multiplexing Big delays in “conversations” More collisions
Importance of 2tp ~ 2tp tp ~ tp Lmin(t) = 2tp