摘要 |
<p>A peer-to-peer communications system comprising a plurality of peers ( P1, P2,...,Px) connected so that each peer can hear each other peer and speak to each other peer. The peers are numbered and transmission of signals by the peers is sequential and in accordance with the numbering of the peers. Each peer includes means for generating a signal for transmission which signal includes information on the length of the signal. Each peer further includes means for detecting the length of the signal received and, at its turn in the predetermined sequence, initiating its transmission upon detecting that a signal of the length indicated by the length information has been received from the preceding peer in the sequence.</p> |