TDMA

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Information on TDMA

TDMA in satellite communications is a mechanism for sharing a channel, whereby a number of satellite communications 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 TDMA is that time-division multiplexing requires users to be collocated to be multiplexed into the channel. In that regard, TDMA can be considered as a remote multiplexing technology. The use of TDMA in satellite communications places some special requirements for synchronisation on transmitters.


Other topics in our resources on Satellite Communications related to TDMA include: 
 
  • Demand-assigned multiple access (DAMA)
  • Fixed-assigned multiple access (FAMA)
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  • Aloha
  • Frequency-division multiple access (FDMA)
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  • Access Technique
  • Code-division multiple access (CDMA)

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