creator Campbell, Graham M. creator Wu, Chien-ting A nodal apparatus for sending and receiving digital data in multiple data slots has a transmitter for transmitting a request for multiple data slots during a control minislot. A conflict resolution queue representative of nodal apparatus sending substantially simultaneous requests for transmission resulting in a collision in a minislot is maintained and stored in a memory. A transmission queue representative of nodal apparatus that have successfully transmitted in a minislot and can be queued for data slot transmission is stored in memory. The transmitter sends multiple data slots signals comprising multiple slots of digital data in response to the transmission queue. A receiver receives multiple data slots signals comprising digital data. A high priority transmission queue may also be stored in memory. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-01-12T19:08:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 6408009.pdf: 417481 bytes, checksum: 6ad17287aa8d97b510c1a116f75bbc07 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-01-12T19:08:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6408009.pdf: 417481 bytes, checksum: 6ad17287aa8d97b510c1a116f75bbc07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-06-18 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-14 2002-06-18 6,408,009 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2436 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access