Day 15

What are some ways that we can design a network to handle (smoothly)
a) addressing and b) communication conflicts in a bus topology?

To address the communication problem I would give each computer an increment of time that they could send out a message. For example A could send information out every 5 seconds. B could send out on increments of 10 seconds and so on. There would have to be an exact starting time though so computers wouldn't get confused or be sending out information all at once. Another problem would be if there were a lot of computers on one bus system, then time increments would get longer. I suppose if this were the only solution to the communication problem, there would have to be a limit to how many computers were on a bus system.

I'm not sure how one would address the address issue with network design. Perhaps each computer could have a signal that they give off at all times so other computers could locate them. It would be kind of like a lighthouse--blinking so you could find it. Again, if there were a lot of computers on one system, the signals would have to be all different so there would have to be a limit of computers on each bus system again.