QUESTIONS ON LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
  1. What is the role of the MAC layer in LAN's?
  2. How would you describe the arrival rate of LAN data traffic?
  3. Why do the pure and slotted Aloha protocols show a reduction in throughput at both the lower and upper ends of the graph?
  4. What is the maximum period of time required for a station to detect a collision on a broadcast cable LAN?
  5. What is an Asymmetric or limited contention protocol?
  6. What is the IEEE 802.2 protocol?
  7. How does the 802.3 LAN standard differ from the Ethernet standard?
  8. How does the 802.3 standard specify a binary '1', binary '0' and idle state?
  9. Describe the Asymmetric protocol implemented in the 802.3 standard?
  10. What is the role of the 'token' in a Token Ring network?
  11. What quantity of data can be transferred in each cell on an 802.6 network?
  12. Why was a data rate of 800Mbps selected for the initial specification of the High Performance Parallel Interface?