| 摘要 |
A method for allocating resources of a shared medium in a large distributed network. Thenodes make reservation requests in parallel during a series of reservation time slots. Foreach slot, one node of a pair transmits a request and the other listens. A node transmitsits own requests and the requests of nodes from the request it received. The process repeats until all nodes have transmitted their requests for medium access, wherein onenode knows the medium access requests of all the nodes in the network. In this fashion,1024 nodes can make their requests in ten time slots. The last node may be a master node or may transmit to a master node or base station, which transmits a full or partialgrant. Alternatively, the nodes may simultaneously transmit their requests to a master node, which passes the group's requests to a master node nearer the base station. |
