Everything about Time-division multiple access

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Time-division multiple accessA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Burst-Mode Digital Signal Processing for Coherent Optical Time-Division Multiple AccessInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: SDH/SONET Explained in Functional ModelsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Time division multiple access methods for wireless personal communicationsCited 148 times
5. Go sideways: UMTSA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Channel access methodA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Time division multiple access methods for wireless personal communications

  D.D. Falconer, F. Adachi, B. Gudmundson · 1995 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 148 citations

• Time-Reversal Division Multiple Access over Multi-Path Channels

  Feng Han, Yu-Han Yang, Beibei Wang · 2012 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 98 citations

• Delay Analysis of a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Channel

  S. Lam · 1977 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 94 citations

• Space-Division Multiple Access Based on Time-Modulated Array

  Chong He, Xianling Liang, Bin Zhou · 2015 · IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters · 63 citations

• Spread-time code-division multiple access

  P.M. Crespo, M.L. Honig, J.A. Salehi · 1995 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 58 citations

• Hybrid wavelength hopping/time spreading code division multiple access systems

  L. Tančevski, I. Andonovic, J. Budin · 1996 · IEE Proceedings - Optoelectronics · 56 citations

• Demonstration of a rapidly tunable optical time-division multiple-access coder

  P.R. Prucnal, M.F. Krol, J.L. Stacy · 1991 · IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 41 citations

• On the Properties of the Flexible Time Division Multiple Access Technique

  G. Cena, V. Valenzano · 2006 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 36 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Burst-Mode Digital Signal Processing for Coherent Optical Time-Division Multiple Access

  Ji Zhou, Cheng Li, Haide Wang · 2025 · Journal of Lightwave Technology · 18 citations

• Ultraviolet random access collaborative networking protocol based on time division multiple access

  Cheng Li, Zhiyong Xu, Jingyuan Wang · 2023 · Journal of Optical Communications and Networking · 16 citations

• Iterative Interference Cancellation for Time Reversal Division Multiple Access

  Ali Mokh, George C. Alexandropoulos, Mohamed Kamoun · 2023 · IEEE Access · 7 citations

• Distributed Passive Positioning and Sorting Method for Multi-Network Frequency-Hopping Time Division Multiple Access Signals

  Jiaqi Mao, Feng Luo, Xiaoquan Hu · 2024 · Sensors · 7 citations

• A Hybrid Anti-Collision Protocol Based on Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Readers

  Mourad Ouadou, Rachid Mafamane, Khalid Minaoui · 2024 · Network · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• SDH/SONET Explained in Functional ModelsHuub van Helvoort · 2005
• 📕Satellite range delay simulator for a matrix-switched time division multiple-access network simulatorLawrence A. Nagy · 1990
• 📕Development and performance of the ACTS high speed VSATJ. Quintana · 1999
• 📕Approaches to optimization of SS/TDMA time slot assignmentThomas O. Wade · 1984
• The TDMA BookGeorge Lamb · 1998
• Wireless communicationsSavo G. Glisic, Pentti A. Leppänen · 1997
• 📕A wideband satcom based avionics network with CDMA uplink and TDM downlink · 2000
• 📕300 Mbps modem · 1988

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