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Patent Number
Patent Inventor Names
Ljubisa Tancevski0
Date of Patent
March 1, 2011
0Patent Application Number
099626850
Date Filed
September 25, 2001
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A metropolitan access network (10) uses a variation of a MAC protocol, where each station (14) on a ring (12) is associated with one or more time slot (30). Each slot carries information regarding the associated station, basic connection fields (32), communications fields (34), and quality of service fields (36). Each station maintains its own local database regarding the status of the network (10) by reading the information in each time slot (30).
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