Line driver circuit for a local area contention network
US4337465A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 25, 1980 |
| Grant date | Jun 29, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L12/413
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
This disclosure relates to a line driver circuit for a station in a data transmission network, which driver circuit is adapted to drive the channel medium with a constant current so that conflicts or collisions with data transmissions from other stations will be cancelled out thereby preventing any particular station from dominating reception of a neighboring station. Each station is adapted to operate in a cyclic mode for contending for access to the network channel where a three-state cycle is employed, which states are the idle state, the packet-being-transmitted state and the acknowledgment period state. Each station will not begin transmission until it determines that the tunnel is in an idle state. Once the station has determined that the channel is idle, it will then delay for a period of time that is randomly chosen and, if the channel is still idle, will then begin transmission. Following transmission, the channel will again be quiescent for a short period of time before the acknowledgment signal is transmitted from the receiver. Each packet of data to be transmitted is of a fixed length so as to provide for synchronization between the various stations contending for acces…
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