Monday, 18 June 2012

LonWorks Physical Layers 3 & 4


Layer 3: Network Layer

This layer is for Destination Addressing and specifies the destination of a message on the network. This corresponds to the area and long distance codes on the telephone network. Services provided by this layer include:
  • Node address information
  • Routing of messages to segment and control network bandwidth usage
  • Services such as determining which nodes on the network receive various messages.
  • The ability to provide routers to segment the traffic and communicate between different physical media.

Layer 4: Transport Layer

This layer is for End to End Reliability and defines the type of services needed for the node messages depending on the level of reliability required by the application. The services provided are:
  • Broadcast addressing
  • Unicast addressing
  • Multicast addressing
  • Repeated service
  • Acknowledged service
  • Unacknowledged service
  • Duplicate packet detection
  • Authentication 

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