Link LayerUnbalanced Transmission

• Only Master device can transmit primary frames

• Collision avoidance is not necessary since slave device cannot initiate exchange, or retry failed messages

• If the slave device responds with  NACK: requested data not availablethe master will try again until it gets data, or a response time-out occurs

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