Patent ID: 7440422

Claim:
A method, comprising: transmitting data in units of bursts, each burst occupying a time slot of one of consecutive frames, each respective frame comprising a predetermined number n of time slots, within each time slot of each frame, data can be transmitted between a first transceiver device and a respective one of a plurality of second transceiver devices either in a first transmission direction from said first transceiver device to said respective second transceiver device or in a second transmission direction from said respective second transceiver device to said first transceiver device, said second transmission direction is opposite to a transmission direction of another time slot of the same frame in which data is transmitted between said first transceiver device and another one of said second transceiver devices, wherein transmission in said first direction occurs in predetermined and fixed time slots in each of consecutive frames, and transmission in said second direction occurs in different time slots in each of consecutive frames, wherein in said second direction, during a first frame of consecutive frames respective second transceiver devices perform transmission to said first transceiver device during an assigned transmission k th time slot, and during a subsequent second frame of said consecutive frames, respective second transceiver devices perform transmission to said first transceiver device during a different assigned transmission l th time slot, with 0≦k, 1≦n−1 and k≠1.