Token Bus (Ieee 802.4) : Token Bus (Ieee 802.4) Is A Popular Standard For Token Passing Lans. in A Token
Token Bus (Ieee 802.4) : Token Bus (Ieee 802.4) Is A Popular Standard For Token Passing Lans. in A Token
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Token Bus (IEEE 802.4) is a popular standard for token passing LANs. In a token
bus LAN, the physical media is a bus or a tree, and a logical ring is created using
coaxial cable. The token is passed from one user to another in a sequence (clockwise
or anticlockwise). Each station knows the address of the station to its “left” and
“right” as per the sequence in the logical ring. A station can only transmit data when it
has the token. The working of a token bus is somewhat similar to Token Ring.
The above diagram shows a logical ring formed in a bus-based token-passing LAN.
The logical ring is shown with the arrows.
Frame Format:
The various fields of the frame format are:
1. Preamble – It is used for bit synchronization. It is 1-byte field.
2. Start Delimiter – These bits mark the beginning of the frame. It is 1-byte
field.
3. Frame Control – This field specifies the type of frame – data frame and
control frames. It is 1-byte field.
6. Data – If 2-byte addresses are used then the field may be up to 8182 bytes
and 8174 bytes in case of 6-byte addresses.
7. Checksum – This field contains the checksum bits which are used to detect
errors in the transmitted data. It is 4 bytes field.
8. End Delimiter – This field marks the end of a frame. It is 1-byte field.
Cycle Time –
The time taken by the token to complete one revolution of the ring is known as cycle
time.
Analog Signal – An analog signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying
feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity i.e.,
analogous to another time varying signal.
2. Frequency Shift keying – In this modulation the frequency of analog carrier signal
is modified to reflect binary data.
The output of a frequency shift keying modulated wave is high in frequency for a
binary high input and is low in frequency for a binary low input. The amplitude and
phase of the carrier signal remain constant.
3. Phase Shift keying – In this modulation the phase of the analog carrier signal is
modified to reflect binary data. The amplitude and frequency of the carrier signal
remains constant.