TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS

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Information on Time-division multiple access (TDMA)

Time-division multiple access is a mechanism for sharing a channel, whereby a number of users have access to the whole channel bandwidth for a small period of time (a time slot). The difference between time-division multiplexing (TDM) and time-division multiple access is that time-division multiplexing requires users to be collocated to be multiplexed into the channel. In that regard, time-division multiple access can be considered as a remote multiplexing technology.


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Time-division multiple access include: 
 
  • Demand-assigned multiple access (DAMA)
  • Carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA)
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  • Fixed-assigned multiple access (FAMA)
  • Aloha
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  • Frequency-division multiple access (FDMA)
  • Access Technique

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