Resolving the access conflict for shared Ethernet communication channel

Abstract

In this paper, we will show how Medium Access Control (MAC) is responsible for managing access to the communication channel for wired network. To ensure efficient transmission, each system must employ a MAC mechanism to arbitrate access to the shared medium in order to avoid data collisions and the same time efficiently share the transmission bandwidth. The purpose of this article is to provide a clear view and understanding of the solution provided, how it allows a strategy to ensure the uniqueness of channel access with fixed and predefined priority to be set up for each communication devices, and how we can exploit the collisions avoiding retransmissions every time to get the channel. Moreover, demonstrate the efficiency of the solution by calculating the performance metrics. It is also our purpose to discuss further prospects of the solution described in this article in order to indicate the trend toward a wireless networks.