Patent ID: 7848344

Claim:
A method for transmitting subscriber-specific data by a communication system in time slots with time slot separation, comprising: combining the time slots for transmission into a periodically recurring time frame such each subscriber having data transmitted in a time frame has at least two time slots assigned to the time frame; asymmetrically transmitting data for each subscriber in a transmit direction and a receive direction with a distribution ratio determined according to a ratio of transmit data packets to receive data packets; and transmitting data for the subscriber in a plurality “n” of half time frames of the time frames, where n≧2 and n∈N, wherein the time slots are selected from the group consisting of half-slot time slots, full-slot time slots and double-slot time slots, wherein a shortened full-slot time slot referred to as a short slot is used for full-slot time slot transmission, a shortened double-slot time slot referred to as a long-slot time slot is used for double-slot time slot transmission, each shortened full slot time slot and each shortened double-slot time slot contains a synchronization field, a data field and a control field, the data field in the shortened full-slot time slot is shortened compared with an unshortened full-slot time slot, the data field in a shortened double-slot time slot is shortened compared to an unshortened double-slot time slot, the size of the data field is variable in the shortened full slot time slot and the shortened double-slot time slot, and the control field is at least as long as required for a carrier signal frequency change to be carried out regardless of how quickly a carrier signal frequency for transmitted data can be changed.