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    The data link layer attempts to provide reliable communication over the physical layer by breaking data into frames, handling errors through acknowledgements and retransmissions, and implementing flow control. It hides hardware details and supports point-to-point and broadcast communication in simplex, half-duplex, or full-duplex modes. The data link layer adds headers for physical addressing and trailers for error control and prevents frame duplication. It is divided into logical link control for protocols, flow control, and error control, and media access control for media access.

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    The data link layer attempts to provide reliable communication over the physical layer by breaking data into frames, handling errors through acknowledgements and retransmissions, and implementing flow control. It hides hardware details and supports point-to-point and broadcast communication in simplex, half-duplex, or full-duplex modes. The data link layer adds headers for physical addressing and trailers for error control and prevents frame duplication. It is divided into logical link control for protocols, flow control, and error control, and media access control for media access.

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    The data link layer attempts to provide reliable communication over the physical layer by breaking data into frames, handling errors through acknowledgements and retransmissions, and implementing flow control. It hides hardware details and supports point-to-point and broadcast communication in simplex, half-duplex, or full-duplex modes. The data link layer adds headers for physical addressing and trailers for error control and prevents frame duplication. It is divided into logical link control for protocols, flow control, and error control, and media access control for media access.

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    Data Link Layer

    Dr.B.H.K
    OSI Reference Model: 7 Layers

    Dr.B.H.K
    OSI: Data Link Layer
    • Data link layer attempts to provide reliable
    communication over the physical layer interface.
    • Breaks the outgoing data into frames and reassemble
    the received frames.
    • Create and detect frame boundaries.
    • Handle errors by implementing an acknowledgement
    and retransmission scheme.
    • Implement flow control.
    • Supports points‐to‐point as well as broadcast
    communication.
    • Supports simplex, half‐duplex or full‐duplex
    communication.

    Dr.B.H.K
    OSI: Data Link Layer
    • Data Link Layer is second layer of OSI Layered Model. This
    layer is one of the most complicated layers and has
    complex functionalities and liabilities.
    • Data link layer hides the details of underlying hardware and
    represents itself to upper layer as the medium to
    communicate.
    • Data link layer works between two hosts which are directly
    connected in some sense. This direct connection could be
    point to point or broadcast. Systems on broadcast network
    are said to be on same link.
    • The work of data link layer tends to get more complex
    when it is dealing with multiple hosts on single collision
    domain.

    Dr.B.H.K
    OSI: Data Link Layer
    • Data link layer is responsible for converting data
    stream to signals bit by bit and to send that over
    the underlying hardware.
    • At the receiving end, Data link layer picks up data
    from hardware which are in the form of electrical
    signals, assembles them in a recognizable frame
    format, and hands over to upper layer.
    • Data link layer has two sub-layers:
    – Logical Link Control: It deals with protocols, flow-
    control, and error control
    – Media Access Control: It deals with actual control of
    media

    Dr.B.H.K
    Functionality of Data-link Layer
    Functions of Data Link Layer:
    • Framing: Frames are the streams of bits received from the network
    layer into manageable data units. This division of stream of bits is
    done by Data Link Layer.
    • Physical Addressing: The Data Link layer adds a header to the frame
    in order to define physical address of the sender or receiver of the
    frame, if the frames are to be distributed to different systems on
    the network.
    • Flow Control: A flow control mechanism to avoid a fast transmitter
    from running a slow receiver by buffering the extra bit is provided
    by flow control. This prevents traffic jam at the receiver side.
    • Error Control: Error control is achieved by adding a trailer at the
    end of the frame. Duplication of frames are also prevented by using
    this mechanism. Data Link Layers adds mechanism to prevent
    duplication of frames.
    • Access Control: Protocols of this layer determine which of the
    devices has control over the link at any given time, when two or
    more devices are connected to the same link.
    Dr.B.H.K
    Design Issues with Data Link Layer

    Design Issues :
    • The issue that arises in the data link layer(and most of
    the higher layers as well) is how to keep a fast
    transmitter from drowning a slow receiver in data.
    • Some traffic regulation mechanism is often needed to
    let the transmitter know how much buffer space the
    receiver has at the moment. Frequently, the flow
    regulation and the error handling are integrated.
    • Broadcast networks have an additional issue in the
    data link layer:
    – How to control access to the shared channel.
    – A special sublayer of the data link layer, the Medium
    Access Control(MAC) sublayer, deals with this problem.

    Dr.B.H.K

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