FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a wireless communication device for a wireless network employing a wireless time division communication structure. The wireless communication device includes a wireless transmitter, a wireless receiver and an access control unit, which is configured to order the wireless transmitter to transmit, in a contention interval, a priority setting of a wireless communication device competing for resources, where the priority setting is transmitted as a signal having a frequency representing the priority setting, order the wireless receiver to receive, in the contention interval, priority settings of other competing wireless communication devices as signals representing these priority settings, compare the transmitted priority setting with the received priority settings and seize a following data interval if the transmitted priority setting is higher than the received priority settings.
EFFECT: improved contention-based access to resources by wireless communication devices on a wireless network.
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