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Ive heard that FDDI uses a token passing scheme for access arbitration, how does this work?

April 26, 2017arbitration fddi heard passing Scheme token uses

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Ive heard that FDDI uses a token passing scheme for access arbitration, how does this work?

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A token is a special three octet FDDI frame. The station waits until a token comes by, grabs the token, transmits one or more frames and release the token. The amount of frames that can be transmitted is determined by timers in the MAC protocol chips.