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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2005
Masaaki Date, Osaka, JP;
Yuki Kubo, Osaka, JP;
Kosuke Sekiyama, Fukui, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a communication system including nodes laid out in a grid, each node operates on a repetitive internal timing cycle, at certain phases in which the node transmits data and state variable signals. The state variable signals transmitted by a node indicate its internal phase and its position in the grid. The advance of the phase at each node is governed by a phase response function, which drives neighboring nodes whose data transmissions could collide out of phase with each other, and a synchronization alliance function, which brings certain nodes having positional relationships that preclude data collisions into phase with each other. A highly efficient data transmission timing pattern can thereby be established autonomously.