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Token ring frames begin with a start frame delimiter to synchronize clocks, followed by access control bits for priority and reservation. They also contain destination and source addresses, variable length data, a cyclic redundancy check for errors, and an end delimiter and frame status. The access control bits use redundancy to help detect errors not caught by the cyclic redundancy check.

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Ieee 802.5

Token ring frames begin with a start frame delimiter to synchronize clocks, followed by access control bits for priority and reservation. They also contain destination and source addresses, variable length data, a cyclic redundancy check for errors, and an end delimiter and frame status. The access control bits use redundancy to help detect errors not caught by the cyclic redundancy check.

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Token Ring Frame format (IEEE 802.

5)

 Startframe delimiter (SFD) – Alerts each station for the arrival of token(or
data frame) or start of the frame. It is used to synchronize clocks.
 Access control (AC) –

Priority bits and reservation bits help in implementing priority. Priority bits
= reservation bits = 3. Eg:- server is given priority = 7 and client is given
priority = 0.

Token bit is used to indicate presence of token frame. If token bit = 1 –>
token frame and if token bit = 0 –> not a token frame.

Monitor bit helps in solving orphan packet problem. It is covered by CRC as


monitor are powerful machines which can recalculate CRC when modifying
monitor bit. If monitor bit = 1 –> stamped by monitor and if monitor bit = 0 –
> not yet stamped by monitor.

 Frame control (FC) – First 2 bits indicates whether the frame contains data or
control information. In control frames, this byte specifies the type of control
information.
 Destination address (DA) and Source address (SA) – consist of two 6-byte
fields which is used to indicate MAC address of source and destination.
 Data – Data length can vary from 0 to maximum token holding time (THT)
according to token reservation strategy adopted. Token ring imposes no lower
bound on size of data i.e. an advantage over Ethernet.
 Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) – 32 bit CRC which is used to check for
errors in the frame, i.e., whether the frame is corrupted or not. If the frame is
corrupted, then its discarded.
 End delimiter (ED) – It is used to mark the end of frame. In Ethernet, length
field is used for this purpose. It also contains bits to indicate a damaged frame
and identify the frame that is the last in a logical sequence.
 Frame status (FS) – It Is a 1-byte field terminating a data frame.

It makes use of 2 copies of AC bits are used as a error detection mechanism


(100% redundancy) as CRC does not cover FS byte so that destination does not
have to recalculate CRC when modifying AC bits.

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