Introduction One of the basic concepts in communication is the idea of allowing several transmitters to send information simultaneously over a communication channel. This concept is described by the terms multiple access and multiplexing. The term multiple access is used when the transmitting sources are not co-located, but operate autonomously as a multipoint-to-point network, while when the transmitting sources are co-located, as in a point-to-multipoint network, we use the term multiplexing.