October 21: Networking thoughts...

Q: What are some creative ways to design a network to handle 1) addressing and 2) communication conflicts in a bus topology?
Addressing can be defined simply as a networks way of finding other computers. A way to help networks find other computers more smoothly and directly would be to name or label each of the computers attached to the network wire of the bus. This could be done a few different ways, either by using numbers, letters or a combination of both to help the network identify where each piece of information is going and to help organize the information when going through the wire.
Having a structured and labeled way of addressing or finding other computers will help to ensure better communication throughout the bus wire and helps to make things run together and more smoothly. Naming them gives the network and address or specific computer of where to send the information, instead of guessing or sending throughout to all. This labeling in beneficial in all sorts of other areas, not just in the computer networking world and helps to make communication run better and faster.