CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE UTILIZING ROTATING TIME STAGGERED ACCESS WINDOWS

摘要

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE UTILIZING ROTATING TIME STAGGERED ACCESS WINDOWS A network arbitration period following the termination of each transmitted frame is divided into a plurality of access windows which axe assigned to respective stations in the network. Any station desiring to gain access to the network can acquire the network by transmitting during its assigned access window if no station assigned an earlier access window has already begun transmitting. The access window assignments can be rotated to equitably distribute access to the network.