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Master!slave communication

1) A form of communication in which one station has master status, which allows it to initiate communication with any other station on the link; while each of the other stations has slave status such that it can only send replies to commands from the master, and send command messages to the master in response to being polled by the master. 2) Contrasted with peer-to-peer communication

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