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Computer Networks (CITS3230) - Lecture 6
 
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IEEE-802.x LAN Standards - The Ethernet System

Devised by Metcalfe and Boggs (1976) from Xerox Parc, (CACM, July 1976, pp395-404).

See undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS3230/metcalfe and undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS3230/ethernet

The 'Ethernet' system is a member of the IEEE-802 family of protocols for local area networks (it is 802.3). 802.3 uses a 1-persistent Carrier-Sense Multiple-Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) method.

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Computer Networks (CITS3230), Lecture 6, p1, 14th April 2008.