Method to assign upstream timeslots to a network terminal and network terminal and medium access controller for performing such a method

摘要

Upstream timeslots are assigned to a network terminal in a time division multiplexed communications network, by means of queue grants, each of these queue grants corresponding to a storage queue within said network terminal and associated with a particular service category. The rate of the queue grant bitstream composed of succeeding occurrences of these queue grants is thereby determined from at least one parameter of a parameter set associated to the corresponding storage queue and from at least one other parameter of at least one other parameter set associated to at least one other storage queue within any of the network terminals within the communications network. The present invention relates as well to a medium access controller adapted to perform the method, to a central station including such a medium access controller and to a network terminal including these storage queues.