Running head: LAN ACCESS METHODS

LAN access methods

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Carrier sense multiple access / Collision Detection are rules that determines how devices
connected to a network react when two devices attempts to communicate simultaneously.
CSMA/CD are used in standard Ethernet network. When Ethernet wire is free each device has
equal access to it. Devices intending to place message on the wire, it first checks if there is a
signal already on the wire (Dean, 2012). If there is traffic device waits until there is no traffic
then places the data. In case two devices place data on the wire collision occurs destroying the
data forcing retransmission after small interval of time.
A token ring network is LAN in which all PCs are associated in a ring or star topology
and pass one or more consistent tokens from host to host. Just a host that holds a token can send
data, and tokens are discharged when receipt of the data is affirmed. As per Dean, (2012), a token
ring system keeps data packets from crashing on a system fragment since data must be sent by a
token holder and the quantity of tokens accessible is controlled.
A main distinction between the two topologies is that token ring is a token-passing
framework in which one and only workstation can talk at once. It must be in control of the token
in the packet; nobody else should have the capacity to talk until their turn comes. While in
Collission Sense Multiple Access/Collission Detection (CSMA/CD) topology various
workstations start talking in the meantime, they will all close down, hold up a randomized
timeframe and after that start up (Dean, 2012). What is hypothetically expected to happen is that
one workstation will start talking before the others do, and the rest of the workstations will see
that somebody is talking and stay noiseless until the present talking workstation has wrapped up.

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Reference
Dean, T. (2013). Network+ guide to networks. Boston: Course technology/cengage learning.