!!! Overview [{$pagename}] ([TDMA]) is a [channel] access method for shared-medium [networks]. [{$pagename}] allows several users to share the same frequency [channel] by dividing the signal into different time slots.The users transmit in rapid succession, one after the other, each using its own time slot. This allows multiple stations to share the same transmission medium (e.g. radio frequency channel) while using only a part of its [channel] capacity. [{$pagename}] is used in the digital [2G] [Mobile Network] such as[ Global System for Mobile Communications] ([GSM]), IS-136, [Personal Digital Cellular] ([PDC]) and [iDEN], and in the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) standard for portable phones. [{$pagename}] is also used extensively in satellite systems, combat-net radio systems, and PON networks for upstream traffic from premises to the operator. [{$pagename}] [frame] structure showing a [data] stream divided into [frames] and those [frames] divided into time slots [{$pagename}] is a type of [Time-Division Multiplex], with the special point that instead of having one transmitter connected to one receiver, there are multiple transmitters. In the case of the uplink from a [Mobile Device] to a base station this becomes particularly difficult because the [Mobile Device] can move around and vary the timing advance required to make its transmission match the gap in transmission from its peers. !! More Information There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: [{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]