A system and method is directed at providing collision-free transmission of packets into a channel, such that: an upper bound can be enforced for the time elapsed between two consecutive time slots assigned to the same node; no collision-avoidance handshake is required for each packet transmission, and...http://www.google.de/patents/US7142527?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7142527 - System and method for transmission scheduling using network membership information and neighborhood information
