Pulse-address multiple access

In telecommunications, pulse-address multiple access (PAMA) is a channel access method that enables the ability of a communication satellite to receive signals from several Earth terminals simultaneously and to amplify, translate, and relay the signals back to Earth, based on the addressing of each station by an assignment of a unique combination of time and frequency slots.

This ability may be restricted by allowing only some of the terminals access to the satellite at any given time.

References

Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. (in support of MIL-STD-188).

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Channel access methods and media access control
Channel-based
FDMA
  • FDM
  • WDM
    • WDMA
TDMA
CDMA
SDMA
PDMA
PAMA
Packet-based
Collision recovery
Collision avoidance
Collision-free
Delay and disruption tolerant
Duplexing methods
  • TDD
  • FDD


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