It is the simplest method of networking computers. It consists of a single cable known as a trunk, backbone or segment that connects all the computers in the network. Each system is directly attached to a common communication channel. Signal that is transmitted over the channel makes up the messages. As each message passes along the channel each system receives it, after receiving the message each system examine the destination address contained in the message, if the destination address tells a particular system that the message is addressed to it, that system accepts and process the message, if the message address tells the computer that the message is intended for another system, that computer will ignore the message
The Physical topology of ieee 802.5 is a bus.
Linear bus topology
Topology: physical ring of trees, logical ring
SONET use RING physical topology and TOKEN logical topology. As simple as that. Logical topology deals with the data transmission. Physical topology deals with how the network is connected physically , BUS, RING, STAR and the like.
Bus topology is the most popular topology. Justify.
The advantage is in fault detection; in a bus topology any break in any wire segment would cause the entire LAN to fail. With a star topology, a break in any wire segment only affects the one client connected to the network.
bus topology
Bus Topology.
A star-wired bus is a hybrid topology (more than 1 type of topology). There is no particular access method that requires or relies on that type of hybrid.
There are two basic categories of network topologies Physical topologies Logical topologies The shape of the cabling layout used to link devices is called the physical topology of the network. Logical topology is the way the signals act in the network In BUS topology you have "THE LINEAR BUS" and "THE DISTRIBUTED BUS" IN the LINEAR bus all the nodes of the network are connected to a common transmission medium which has 2 end points where as in the DISTRIBUTED, all the nodes are connected to a common transmission medium which has more than 2 end points.
Without knowing a bit more about the context, probably "topology".Common network topologies are ring, star, bus and mesh.
Bus topology is extended via the use of repeaters.