Abstract: A method for associating time slots with links between network nodes of a wireless interconnected network of a plurality of network nodes in which data are transmitted in the network on a time slot basis by association of the time slots to be used with the links on a plurality of channels, wherein a plurality of traffic requests each specifying a data transfer between a source node and a destination node are prescribed and set one or more time slot sequences that each describe a time-based sequence of time slots associated with links between adjacent network nodes of a transmission path between the source and destination nodes, and an association methodology for data transmission via a plurality of channels is determined, considering all predefined traffic requests, based on an optimization criterion, and configured such that the number of time slots used in the association methodology is as low as possible.