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Token Ring is a physical and data link layer computer networking technology used to build local area networks. It was introduced by IBM in 1984 and standardized in 1989 as IEEE 802.5. It uses a special three-byte frame called a token that is passed around a logical ring of workstations or servers. This token passing is a channel access method providing fair access for all stations and eliminating the collisions of contention-based access methods. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Token RingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Token-Based Authentication Monitoring SystemInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Token ring networksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of AffiliationCited 1,006 times
- Go sideways: EthernetA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Fiber Distributed Data InterfaceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A network standard invented by IBM and later defined by the 802.5 subcommittee of the IEEE which provides for a network with a star ring topology, and which operates by passing a token frame around the logical ring.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of Affiliation
Exact Results for Nonsymmetric Token Ring Systems
WTRP—Wireless Token Ring Protocol
Token-ring local-area networks and their performance
Responsive, deterministic IEEE 802.5 token ring scheduling
A token-ring network for local data communications
The Stabilizing Token Ring in Three Bits
Process control communications: Token bus, CSMA/CD, or token ring?
🆕 Influential since 2022
Token-Based Authentication Monitoring System
On the mixed metric dimension of efficient two-fault-resilient token Ring graphs
Ctp2Fic: From coarse-grained token pruning to fine-grained token clustering for LVLM inference acceleration
Metric dimension of line graphs of optimal fault-tolerant token ring networks
A self-stabilizing token circulation with graceful handover on bidirectional ring networks
📚 Books worth reading
Token ring networksJohn R. Abrahams · 1991
Token Ring troubleshooting guideDaniel J. Nassar · 1992
Network optimization and troubleshootingDaniel J. Nassar · 1994
The IBM Lan server sourcebookPat Scherer, Charlie Brown · 1995
Ethernet and Token Ring optimizationDaniel J. Nassar · 1995
Token RingHans-Georg Göhring · 1992
Token ring network designBird, David · 1994
Token-ring networksGilbert Held · 1994
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