Method and system for determining network access delay

摘要

A method and apparatus for determining network access delays in a communications network is disclosed. The communications network has a plurality of stations interconnected in a communications network. An access delay interval determining means determines a network access delay for each of the plurality of stations. That is, a time interval between a station predetermined sequence of symbols received from each of the stations and a local predetermined sequence of symbols is determined based upon a point of predetermined correlation between the station predetermined sequence of symbols and the local predetermined sequence of symbols. The time interval is used in determining the network access delay for each of the stations. The stations transmit data packets at times based upon their corresponding network access delay.