Abus networkis anetwork topologyin whichnodesare directly connected to a commonhalf-duplexlink called abus.[1][2]
Ahoston a bus network is called astation.In a bus network, every station will receive all network traffic, and the traffic generated by each station has equal transmission priority.[3]A bus network forms a singlenetwork segmentandcollision domain.In order for nodes to share the bus, they use amedium access controltechnology such ascarrier-sense multiple access(CSMA) or abus master.
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- ^Knott, Geoffrey; Waites, Nick (2002).BTEC Nationals for IT Practitioners.Brancepeth Computer Publications. p. 395.ISBN0-9538848-2-1.
...all stations have equal priority in using the network to transmit.