A contention-resolution protocol on a single shared bus with asynchronous time-division multiplexing and random access is disclosed. The scheme is equivalent to finding the extremum of a set of random numbers. Each station maintains a common window. A station contending for the use of the bus generates...http://www.google.fr/patents/US4630264?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US4630264 - Efficient contention-resolution protocol for local multiaccess networks
Efficient contention-resolution protocol for local multiaccess networks