creator Campbell, Graham M. creator Xu, Wenxin A method for controlling multiple access of a transmission channel wherein a plurality of different patterns are assigned to a plurality of sending stations so that each sending station corresponds to a unique pattern, preferably a pattern represented by a Binomial coefficient. Each unique pattern is transmitted from a corresponding sending station to the transmission channel by way of a control minislot. Ternary feedback is received from the control minislot. A summation of different patterns within each control minislot are analyzed to detect whether a collision exists between the different patterns within each control minislot. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-12-15T20:09:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 6292493.pdf: 177518 bytes, checksum: 14fe19bac0cf91a5c704f5633db937b8 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-15T20:09:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6292493.pdf: 177518 bytes, checksum: 14fe19bac0cf91a5c704f5633db937b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001-09-18 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-14 2001-09-18 6,292,493 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2432 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access