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Authors:
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Chapter:
The Link Layer: Links,access Networks, And Lans
Exercise:
Review
Question:8 | ISBN:9780132856201 | Edition: 6

Question

Why would the token-ring protocol be inefficient if a LAN had a very large perimeter?

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Answer

If LAN had very large perimeter, then the following problems are occurred as:

  • The node sends the data only if recieves the token in token-ring topology.
  • Wating time is high from one node to next node data transfer.

So token-ring protocol to be inefficient.

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