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media access: Token Passing - information is traveling from station to station and is regenerated by each station; no collisions; possession of the token grants the right to transmit data
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priority system: token ring networks use a sophisticated priority system that permits certain users and high priority stations to use network more frequently (frame contains priority field and reservation field)
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One selected station works as active monitor: it acts as a centralized source of timing information; removal of faulty frames circling the ring
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beaconing algorithm detects and tries to repair certain network faults
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frames:
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tokens : 3 bytes in length (start delimiter, access control byte, end delimiter)
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data/command s: vary in size
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