Patent ID: 8188853

Claim:
A Time-Slot Reuse (TSR) method for allocating resources in a communication channel, the method comprising: (a) determining, for each of a plurality of device pairs within a network, whether the pair of devices may communicate at a particular quality of service (QoS); (b) assigning a first link qualifier to each pair of devices that is determined in step (a) to be able to communicate at the particular QoS and assigning a second link qualifier to each pair of devices that is determined in step (a) to be unable to communicate at the particular QoS; (c) allocating, for a pair of first and second network devices that has the first link qualifier assigned thereto, a channel resource for communication of payload information from the first device to the second device; (d) marking, as available or unavailable, channel resources based on said channel resource allocation in step (c) using a predefined criterion; and (e) allocating, for a second pair of third and fourth devices, an available channel resource on the basis of said criterion in step (d).