Access methods

Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)

• Time Division Multiple Access lets multiple users to share the

same channel by multiplexing their transmissions in time.

• Consecutive time slots are assigned to different channels.

• The data rate of the channel is the sum of data rates of all the

multiplexed transmissions.

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Ch 1 Ch 3 Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 4 Ch 2 Ch 5 Ch 3 Ch 2

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