| 摘要 |
<p>Shared bandwidth is allocated among a plurality of users of a communications system of the type in which information is communicated in a sequentially repeating series of frames of information, each frame (40) being subdivided into a number of slots (43), and each slot being capable of carrying a quantity of information. The bandwidth is allocated by determining the number of slots available in a frame for a predetermined group of users, determining the number of slots requested by each user of the group, and allocating slots in the frame to predetermined ones of the users of the group in accordance with a predetermined allocation scheme.</p> |
