Issues of a Network Transaction

• Protection

  • loosely coupled nodes

• Format

  • Does network transaction size match packet size

• Output Buffering

  • multiplex between many senders
  • effects of packet size

• Media Arbitration

  • resources are allocated incrementally

• Destination Naming and routing

• Input Buffering

  • destination must receive from many possible sources

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