Chapter 15:
LAN Systems
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High-Speed LANs
✘ Why?
✘ Extraordinary growth in speed, power, and storage
capacity of PCs
✘ Increasing use of LANs as computing platforms
✘ Examples
✘ Server farms
✘ Workgroups with “power” requirements
✘ High-speed backbones
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Traditional Ethernet
✘ Ethernet and CSMA/CD (IEEE 802.3)
✘ Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
✘ Four step procedure
✘ If medium is idle, transmit
✘ If medium is busy, listen until idle and then transmit
✘ If collision is detected, cease transmitting
✘ After a collision, wait a random amount of time before
retransmitting
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802.3 Medium Notation
✘ Notation format:
<data rate in Mbps><signaling method>
segment length in hundreds of meters>
✘ e.g 10Base5 provides 10Mbps baseband, up to 500
meters
✘ T and F are used in place of segment length for
twisted pair and fiber
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802.3 10BaseX Media Options
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Fast Ethernet (100Mbps)
✘ Easy to integrate with existing systems
✘ Can use UTP (-TX) or fiber (-FX)
✘ Uses star-wired topology, using a central multiport
repeater (broadcast method)
✘ If NICs support full-duplex mode, switched hub
must be used
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802.3 100Base-T Options
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802.3 100BaseX Media Options
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Gigabit Ethernet
✘ Still under development
✘ Retains CSMA/CD protocol and Ethernet format,
ensuring smooth upgrade path
✘ Uses optical fiber over short distances
✘ 1-gbps switching hub provides backbone
connectivity
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Gigabit Ethernet Media Options
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Example 100-Mbps Ethernet
Backbone Strategy
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Token Ring LANs (802.5):
Medium Access Control
✘ Token “seized” by changing a bit on the circulating
frame to indicate start of frame rather than token
✘ Default configuration requires sender to complete
transmission and begin receiving transmitted frame
before releasing the token
✘ “Early token release” allows release of token after
transmission but before receipt of frame
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802.5 Transmission Media
✘ Original specified shielded twisted pair with data
rates of 4 and 16mbps
✘ New addition to standard allows use of UTP for
4mbps
✘ Utilizes differential Manchester encoding
✘ 1997 update to IEEE 802.5 introduced dedicated
token ring (DTR).
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Fibre Channel
✘ combine the best features of channel and protocolbased technologies
✘ the simplicity and speed of channel communications
✘ the flexibility and inter-connectivity that characterize
protocol-based network communications.
✘ more like a traditional circuit-switched or packetswitched network, in contrast to the typical sharedmedium LAN
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Fibre Channel Goals
✘ Full-duplex links with two fibers
per link
✘ Performance from 100 Mbps to
800 Mbps on a single link (200
Mbps to1600 Mbps per link)
✘ Support for distances up to 10
km
✘ Small connectors
✘ High-capacity utilization with
distance insensitivity
✘ Greater connectivity than existing
multidrop channels
✘ Broad availability (i.e., standard
components)
✘ Support for multiple
cost/performance levels, from
small systems to supercomputers
✘ Ability to carry multiple existing
interface command sets for
existing channel and network
protocols
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Fibre Channel Elements
✘ Nodes
✘ The end systems
✘ Includes one or more N_ ports for interconnection
✘ Fabric
✘ Collection of switching elements s between systems
✘ Each element includes multiple F_ ports
✘ Responsible for buffering and for routing frames between
source and destination nodes
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Fibre Channel
Protocol Architecture
✘ FC-0 Physical Media: Includes optical fiber, coaxial cable, and
shielded twisted pair, based on distance requirements
✘ FC-1 Transmission Protocol: Defines the signal encoding scheme
✘ FC-2 Framing Protocol: Defines topologies, frame format,
flow/error control, and grouping of frames
✘ FC-3 Common Services: Includes multicasting
✘ FC-4 Mapping: Defines the mapping of various channel and
network protocols to Fibre Channel
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Wireless LANS
✘ LAN extension
✘ Wireless network connected to a main wire-based network
✘ Cross-building interconnect
✘ Point-to-point link between networks in separate buildings
✘ Nomadic access
✘ Wireless link between a LAN hub and a mobile data terminal
✘ Ad hoc networks
✘ a peer-to-peer network (no centralized server) set up temporarily to
meet some immediate need.
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Wireless LAN Requirements
✘ Throughput
✘ Number of nodes:
✘ Connection to backbone
LAN
✘ Service area
✘ Battery power consumption
✘ Transmission robustness
and security
✘ Co-located network
operation
✘ License-free operation
✘ Handoff/roaming
✘ Dynamic configuration
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IEEE 802.11 Standards
✘ Association/Re-Association/Disassociation
✘ Authentication
✘ Privacy
✘ Physical Media
✘ Infrared at 1 or 2 Mbps at a wavelength of 850-950 nm
✘ Direct-sequence spread spectrum in the 2.4-GHz ISM band
✘ Frequency-hopping spread spectrum in the 2.4-GHz ISM band, at
data rates of 1 and 2 Mbps.
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