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Chander B Ramchandani

James C Stoffel

Apparatus and method are described for a data communication network which has topological independence, low variance service time distributions, potentially guaranteed maximum time to transmit, easy expansion and high error tolerance. The network access control is fundamentally a permit (token) based system. This yields highly efficient utilization of the channel and powerful control over priorities on access to the network. In addition, a contention based scheme is provided to enable error recovery, startup, and restart to be fast and reliable.

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Chander B Ramchandani