Patent ID: 8838720

Claim:
A method for managing a distribution of bandwidth in a communications network by a slave node of said network, said network comprising a set of nodes, wherein said slave node performs steps of: determining a coarse representation and a detailed representation of the distribution of the bandwidth in said network, as a function of a piece or pieces of information relative to conditions of transmission in said network; receiving a coarse reference representation of the distribution of the bandwidth in said network, coming from a master node of said network; comparing said determined coarse representation and said coarse reference representation; when said coarse representations are identical, applying said determined detailed representation; and when the coarse representations are not identical, sending a piece of control information to the other nodes of the network, indicating that the coarse and detailed representations determined by the slave node are incorrect, wherein said slave node sends out in a control data field said piece of control information, and wherein the control data field is contained in a time slot and has its position in said time slot predefined and fixed.