Université Catholique de Louvain: Olivier Bonaventure's "Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, and Practice"

Read the beginning of section 6.2, "Medium Access Control," on pages 214-215. Stop at section 6.2.1 "Static Allocation Methods," which you will read below.

A computer network environment faces additional problems beyond the framing and error detection issues that are resolved in the datalink layer. What are these problems? How does the Medium Access Control algorithm(s) function in any of the computer network topologies?

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