A system and method that facilitates multiple systems of communicating
devices, i.e., a master device and one or more implantable slave devices,
to coexist on a common, e.g., RF, communication channel having a limited
temporal bandwidth while maintaining the required update rate between
each master device and its associated slave devices. In embodiments of
the present invention, master devices periodically transmit one or more
beacon messages that are suitable for identification by other such master
devices at a communication range greater than the communication range
that may cause interference between systems and thus enabling one or more
systems to cause the position of its frame periods to be interleaved with
the frame periods of other such systems in anticipation of systems moving
in closer proximity and actually interfering with each other.