Subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) for a serial bus system, having a communication control device (11; 21; 31) for controlling communication between the subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) and at least one other subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) of the bus system, a transceiver device (12; 22; 32) for transmitting a transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4) generated by the communication control device (11; 21; 31) onto a bus of the bus system in a frame (450; 460), and a scheduling unit (15; 25; 35) for scheduling temporal access to the bus by the subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) in at least one time slot (S1 to S4) of a round of temporally successive time slots (S1 to S4), wherein, in a round, at least one time slot (S1 to S4) is provided for each subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) of the bus for the purpose of transmitting its transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4), and the round repeats cyclically, and wherein the scheduling unit (15; 25; 35) is configured to determine, with the other subscriber stations (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) of the bus, during operation of the bus system, in a starting round (C_SU) after the bus system has been switched on or after one of the subscriber stations (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) has gone to sleep and woken up again, using a priority of the transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4) for subsequent rounds of the cyclically repeating round, which time slot (S1 to S4) of the starting round (C_SU) can be used by the transceiver device (12; 22; 32) to transmit the frame (450; 460) for the transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4) onto the bus, wherein the assignment of the time slots (S1 to S4) to the subscriber stations (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) remains unchanged in the subsequent rounds, as a result of which the transmission sequence is unchanged in the subsequent rounds. a communication control device (11; 21; 31) for controlling communication between the subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) and at least one other subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) of the bus system, a transceiver device (12; 22; 32) for transmitting a transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4) generated by the communication control device (11; 21; 31) onto a bus of the bus system in a frame (450; 460), and a scheduling unit (15; 25; 35) for scheduling temporal access to the bus by the subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) in at least one time slot (S1 to S4) of a round of temporally successive time slots (S1 to S4), wherein, in a round, at least one time slot (S1 to S4) is provided for each subscriber station (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) of the bus for the purpose of transmitting its transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4), and the round repeats cyclically, and wherein the scheduling unit (15; 25; 35) is configured to determine, with the other subscriber stations (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) of the bus, during operation of the bus system, in a starting round (C_SU) after the bus system has been switched on or after one of the subscriber stations (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) has gone to sleep and woken up again, using a priority of the transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4) for subsequent rounds of the cyclically repeating round, which time slot (S1 to S4) of the starting round (C_SU) can be used by the transceiver device (12; 22; 32) to transmit the frame (450; 460) for the transmit signal (TX1; TX2; TX3; TX4) onto the bus, wherein the assignment of the time slots (S1 to S4) to the subscriber stations (10; 20; 30; 1 to 4) remains unchanged in the subsequent rounds, as a result of which the transmission sequence is unchanged in the subsequent rounds.