to identify this new category of messages within this category two aforementioned messages u201c list request u201d and u201c list response u201d are defined within the u201c list response u201d message a new u201c list of allocated slots u201d ie is defined fig3 shows an exemplary mesh network 300 including two mesh nodes 305 and 310 which are configured in accordance with the present invention the node 305 includes a transmitter 315 a receiver 320 a processor 325 a memory 330 and an antenna 332 the node 310 includes a transmitter 335 a receiver 340 a processor 345 a memory 350 and an antenna 352 the processor 325 in the node 305 is configured to generate a list of allocated slots request message 360 which is transmitted by the transmitter 315 via the antenna 332 of the node 305 when node 305 wants to transmit data to node 310 it has to know when node 310 is free to receive data thus the node 305 requests node 310 to provide its u201c allocated slots u201d e g slots when node 310 is busy thus the node 305 can request the u201c list of allocated slots u201d from node 310 to be able to allocate some free slot to exchange data with node 310 each memory 330 and 350 keeps track of slot allocation schedule information associated with its respective node 305 310 the memories 330 and 350 also keep track of the slot allocation information of other nodes besides the node that the respective memory resides in thus each node can keep.