Bus Topology

Advantages and disadvantages of the Bus Topology y The wiring complexity is low. This factor plays an especially large role in automobiles. An economical and easy to manage twisted wire pair serves as the transmission medium. CAN stations can be subsequently added to and removed from the existing CANbus relatively easily. Only the connection to the bus line must be made or disconnected. This aspect plays a significant role, especially with trouble shootingand repairs. The breakdown of a CAN station has no immediate impact on the CAN bus. All the other stations can communicate unconstrained.

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The disadvantages of the Bus Topology

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The bus line cannot be designed arbitrarily long since the electrical properties (e.g. signal reflections) set physical limits in combination with the transmission speed. The same is also valid for the branch lines to the control units in the automobile. Depending on the transmission speed they may not exceed a certain length. In order to optimise the signal quality the ends of the bus line must be "terminated" with load resistors. A cable end which is not correctly terminated can make the entire bus inoperative, especially with a high transmission speed.

Star Topology
Advantages of Star Topology y As compared to Bus topology it gives far much better performance, signals dont necessarily get transmitted to all the workstations. y A sent signal reaches the intended destination after passing through no more than 3-4 devices and 2-3 links. y Performance of the network is dependent on the capacity of central hub. y Easy to connect new nodes or devices. In star topology new nodes can be added easily without affecting rest of the network. Similarly components can also be removed easily. y Centralized management. It helps in monitoring the network. y Failure of one node or link doesnt affect the rest of network. At the same time its easy to detect the failure and troubleshoot it.

Disadvantages of Star Topology y Too much dependency on central device has its own drawbacks. If it fails whole network goes down. y The use of hub, a router or a switch as central device increases the overall cost of the network. y Performance and as well number of nodes which can be added in such topology is depended on capacity of central device.

Ring Topology
Advantages of Ring Topology y This type of topology is very organized. Each node gets to send the data when it receives an empty token. This helps to reduces chances of collision. Also in ring topology all the traffic flows in only one direction at very high speed. Even when the load on the network increases, its performance is better than that of Bus topology There is no need for network server to control the connectivity between workstations. Additional components do not affect the performance of network. Each computer has equal access to resources.

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Disadvantages of Ring Topology y y y y Each packet of data must pass through all the computers between source and destination. This makes it slower than Star topology If one workstation or port goes down, the entire network gets affected. Network is highly dependent on the wire which connects different components. MAUs and network cards are expensive as compared to Ethernet cards and hubs.