Patent ID: 6041050
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: H04J

Abstract:
A method for allocating cell slots comprising a frame to one or more channels of a transmission medium, the number of cell slots F comprising the frame being equal to any integer number, said method comprising the steps of:arbitrarily assigning disjoint subsets of a contiguous range of F element addresses to each of the one or more channels, each of the subsets comprising a number of the F element addresses equal to the number of the cell slots to be allocated to the channel to which the subset is assigned; andtransforming each of the range of F contiguous element addresses into one of F unique cell slot addresses on a one-to-one basis, wherein each of the F cell slot addresses connotes a relative cell slot position for one of the F cell slots within the frame, and whereby the cell slot addresses derived from said transformation of the element addresses of each assigned subset connote the relative position of cell slots allocated to the channel to which each subset is assigned.