
the destination station or is damaged when it is received, NACK (non-acknowledg-
ment) or FAIL (failure) processes are implemented between the source station and
the destination station prior to the resending of the missing or damaged segments.
Reassembly
When they are received, the segments are buffered and indexed in the reassembly
buffer of the destination station with the station address and priority. Once all the
segments of a SB are received, the data block is de-encapsulated and transmitted to
the OSI model upper layers. The SB then form IP frames with TCP or UDP headers.
The reassembly buffer can then be emptied so that the next frames can be
received. The size of the buffer is intended to favor the maximum transmission
speed over the transmission channel. However, since access to the medium (CSMA)
is not deterministic, the buffer cannot anticipate the segment transmission speed
and can find itself in a saturation situation, in which it can no longer accept addi-
tional segments. It then asks the source station to resend the segments that are not
processed at a later time.
Other Functionalities
The PLC implement other network functionalities in order to optimize the use of the
transmission channel, in particular in terms of data transmission speed.
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Pair <SA, P>
Pair <SA, P> = Source Address, priority
Figure 3.24 Data frame fragmentation
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