When Ethernet was originally envisioned, it would use a common, shared medium (the ‘Ether’ part), with transmitting and collision resolution handled by the carrier sense multiple access with collision ...
Gary Robinson was part of the “DIX-group” that submitted the “Blue Book” carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) specification. In 1980, when IEEE started Project 802 to ...
The MAC sublayer offers many different protocols for sharing a transmission medium, but the netWorks application focuses on three MAC protocols defined by the IEEE 802 committee. These protocols are ...