CS-534: Packet Switch Architecture
Spring 2003		 Department of Computer Science
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0.3   Point-to-Point versus Shared Medium Links

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Point-to-Point and Shared-Medium: examples and advantages of each

Shared medium link: turn-around overhead

how many bits is the distance d worth?

Link utilization for varying link throughput, link length, packet size

Arbitration Overhead

Single versus multiple parallel transmissions

In this course... only switches with point-to-point links

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