February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
387 pages
7h 36m
English
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LAN LAYERED ARCHITECTURE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) publishes several LAN standards. The IEEE LAN standards are organized as follows:
| IEEE 802.1 | High Level Interface (and MAC Bridges), and network management |
| IEEE 802.2 | Logical Link Control (LLC) |
| IEEE 802.3 | Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect (CSMA/CD) |
| IEEE 802.4 | Token Bus |
| IEEE 802.5 | Token Ring |
| IEEE 802.6 | Metropolitan Area Networks |
| IEEE 802.7 | Broadband LANs |
| IEEE 802.8 | Fiber Optic LANs |
| IEEE 802.9 | Integrated Data and Voice Networks |
| IEEE 802.10 | Security |
| IEEE 802.11 | Wireless Networks |
We will focus on MAC and LLC in this chapter, and MAC bridges in Chapter 4. Other literature is available on the other IEEE protocols, but a few words about some of them should prove helpful for ...
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