Patent ID: 7136371

Claim:
A wireless network for assigning time slots in a wireless communication of packets, comprising: a plurality of transmitting and receiving terminals; and a central station for determining a first subset of the transmitting terminals that intend to transmit packets to the receiving terminals and a second subset that includes the transmitting terminals that do not belong to the first subset; the central station determining a transmission order according to a decreasing number of the receiving terminals such that a transmitting terminals transmits first if said transmitting terminal intends to transmit the largest number of the receiving terminals; the central station sorting the receiving terminals that receive the packets from the first subset of the transmitting terminals into a first group which includes the receiving terminals that have been used as the transmitting terminals and into a second group which includes the remaining of the receiving terminals; the central station determining a receiving order in the first and second groups in accordance with the transmission order; the central station selecting the receiving terminal of the second group prior to the first group.