UniLINK-2 Media Access Protocol
Periodic Dedicated Bandwidth
Provides dedicated, jitter free slots with fixed interval to interval timing. BW allocated to requesting node, contiguous slots
Reservation Dedicated Bandwidth
Supports VBR traffic requiring guaranteed BW. Provides shared round-robin BW under heavy traffic loads. Available slots vary.
Contention Bandwidth
Slots available to all nodes. Probability for collisions based on load. Similar to CSMA/CD