Vehicle network and method of communication

A system for communicating in a vehicle network, the system comprising:

• a plurality of segments of equal duration within a TDMA network;
• each of the plurality of segments further comprising a plurality of TDMA communication slots and the slots and segments forming a TDMA cycle;
• at least some of the plurality of communication slots supporting communication between a pair of nodes in the vehicle network;
• wherein the plurality of communication slots supporting communication between the pair of nodes in the vehicle network, is identified by a slot type comprising one of a low latency traffic slot, a bulk traffic slot, wherein the low latency traffic slot has a first latency guarantee of 500 microseconds or less and wherein the bulk traffic slot has a second latency guarantee of 40 milliseconds or less;
• and
• wherein the low latency traffic slots are repeated in each of the plurality of segments and the bulk traffic slots are repeated at least in each TDMA cycle.