A TDMA data-buffering technique that provides minimum throughput delays while allowing time-slot reassignments without data-transfer interruptions

Data-buffering techniques currently used in time-division-multiple-access (TDMA) networks are described, including a short-delay technique called sub-framing. The sub-framing technique produces minimum user-to-user streamed-data throughput delays but results in data-transfer interruptions when TDMA time-slot resources have reassigned positions in the time frame. A simple modification to the sub-framing data-buffering technique is proposed, and it accommodates dynamic TDMA time-slot resource reassignments without data-transfer interruptions. This proposed data buffering technique provides the same minimum user-to-user streamed-data throughput delay, which is approximately equal to the difference between the TDMA frame time and the TDMA time-slot duration, but does not have data-transfer interruptions when TDMA time-slot resources have reassigned positions in the time frame.