ISO/IEC 8802-6:1994

Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Specific requirements — Part 6: Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) access method and physical layer specifications ISO/IEC 8802-6:1994

Publication date:   May 19, 1994

Scope

Defines a high-speed shared medium access protocol for use of a dual, counter-flowing, unidirectional bus subnetwork. Specifies the physical layer and DQDB layer required to support logical link control (LLC) sublayer, by a connectionless medium access control (MAC) sublayer service. Also specifies additional DQDB layer functions as a framework for other services.