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A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable th

A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable the wireless channel access scheme to address predetermined characteristics of the wireless channel access system. These predetermined heuristics include using bootstrap slots, adaptive broadcast cycles, channelized neighborhoods, standby slots, speculation slots, neighbor segregation, hard circuits, and soft circuits.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A method for automatically managing communication channel resources between nodes having neighboring nodes in a network of transceiver nodes, wherein each node communicates during specific time slots and uses multiple frequencies using a time division multiple access st

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A method for automatically managing communication channel resources between nodes having neighboring nodes in a network of transceiver nodes, wherein each node communicates during specific time slots and uses multiple frequencies using a time division multiple access structure, the method comprising:storing possible communications time slots and frequencies between nodes in the network at each node;announcing and transmitting from a first node during a specific time slot, a specific transmit slot and frequency and the identification of a second node to all neighboring nodes of the first node comprising a first set of neighboring nodes;transmitting from the first node in a bootstrap slot a control packet containing:a set of slot and frequency pairs on which the first node is transmitting;a set of slot and frequency pairs on which the first node is receiving; anda set of slot and frequency pairs on which the first set of neighboring nodes are transmitting on;identifying in each of the nodes of the first set of neighboring nodes the announced selected transmit slot and frequency used to establish substantially contention free communication on the selected transmit slot and frequency between the first and second nodes; andassigning slot and frequency pairs from the communications channel resources by utilizing a heuristics.