Patent ID: 6731616
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
A communication system comprising a main station (1), a transmission medium (3, 4, 5), and terminals (2), said terminals comprising:means for transmitting to the main station requests (R) indicating a number of reservations to be granted to the terminal on the transmission medium (RESA(i,t)), a counter of requests (COUNT(i,t)) for counting the reservations which have been requested by the terminal and which have not yet been granted, means for calculating the number of reservation (RESA(i,t)) to be requested, taking into account the value of the counter of requests (COUNT(i,t), while said main station comprises a set of allocation counters (ALLOC(i)), each associated with a terminal, for counting the reservation to be granted to the relevant terminal, characterized in that said terminals comprise reset means for resetting their request counters and for transmitting to the main station a reset indicator (Fri)) for resetting the counter of allocations which is associated with the relevant terminal.