

The disadvantage which takes place only even when demand is light a station wishing to transmit must wait for the token due to which latency increases.

“Carrier sense” means the transmitter uses feedback from the receiver to determine whether another transmission is in progress prior sending the data it also tries to detect the presence of the carrier wave from another station before transmitting.Carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) is called as probabilistic media access control (MAC) protocol in which the node verifies the absence of other traffic before transmitting, such as an electrical bus, or a band of the electromagnetic spectrum.In this case the collision probability increases. The nodes can start transmission as soon as they get the frame. In this case there is no synchronization between the slots and so it is simpler. The nodes start their transmission at the beginning of slot here the nodes are synchronized in case two or more number of node transmitting at the same time then all nodes detect collision. Here the time is divided into equal size slots which depends on the time taken to transmit one frame. In case of slotted aloha same size of frames are created to send data. If there is a collision in the channel then it is detected by protocol and due to present transmission then it signifies that some other node is also transmitting then the protocol at this node waits for some time and retransmits data. If two collisions take place simultaneously then the protocol will detect them quickly and find the way to recover the lost data between these collisions and it is done by delayed re-transmission. It detects collision and also the way of recovery from that collision. The random access protocol is basically used for monitoring the collision.At specific time when there are two or even more transmission taking place simultaneously node collision will take place in the channel. There is no prior coordination among the nodes and the nodes do not inform each other before transmitting data on a channel.
#Random access for mac layer full#
As in any moment when a node has something to transmit it sends it on channel at full data rate R. In case there are one or more than one node transmitting at the same time then there is to happen a collision in the network. In case Random access protocol the channel is not divided but a complete bandwidth is given to all users.
