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Flow control is a mechanism to tell the source device stopping sending frame for a specified
period of time designated by target device until the PAUSE time expires. This is accomplished
by sending a PAUSE frame from target device to source device. When the target is not busy
and the PAUSE time is expired, it will send another PAUSE frame with zero time-to-wait to
source device. After the source device receives the PAUSE frame, it will again transmit
frames immediately. PAUSE frame is identical in the form of the MAC frame with a pause-time
value and with a special destination MAC address 01-80-C2-00-00-01. As per the specification,
PAUSE operation can not be used to inhibit the transmission of MAC control frame.
Normally, in 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet, only symmetric flow control is supported.
However, some switches (e.g. 24-Port GbE Web Smart Switch) support not only symmetric but
asymmetric flow controls for the special application. In Gigabit Ethernet, both symmetric
flow control and asymmetric flow control are supported. Asymmetric flow control only allows
transmitting PAUSE frame in one way from one side, the other side is not but
receipt-and-discard the flow control information. Symmetric flow control allows both two
ports to transmit PASUE frames each other simultaneously.
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After the end of a transmission, if a network node is ready to transmit data out and if there is
no carrier signal on the medium at that time, the device will wait for a period of time known
as an inter-frame gap time to have the medium clear and stabilized as well as to have the jobs
ready, such as adjusting buffer counter, updating counter and so on, in the receiver site.
Once the inter-frame gap time expires after the de-assertion of carrier sense, the MAC
transmits data. In IEEE802.3 specification, this is 96-bit time or more.
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Collision happens only in half-duplex operation. When two or more network nodes transmit
frames at approximately the same time, a collision always occurs and interferes with each
other. This results the carrier signal distorted and undiscriminated. MAC can afford detecting,
through the physical layer, the distortion of the carrier signal. When a collision is detected
during a frame transmission, the transmission will not stop immediately but, instead,
continues transmitting until the rest bits specified by jamSize are completely transmitted.
This guarantees the duration of collision is enough to have all involved devices able to detect
the collision. This is referred to as Jamming. After jamming pattern is sent, MAC stops
transmitting the rest data queued in the buffer and waits for a random period of time, known
as backoff time with the following formula. When backoff time expires, the device goes back
to the state of attempting to transmit frame. The backoff time is determined by the formula
below. When the times of collision is increased, the backoff time is getting long until the
collision times excess 16. If this happens, the frame will be discarded and backoff time will
also be reset.
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In essence, the frame reception is the same in both operations of half duplex and full duplex,
except that full-duplex operation uses two buffers to transmit and receive the frame
independently. The receiving node always “listens” if there is traffic running over the
medium when it is not receiving a frame. When a frame destined for the target device comes,
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