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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2006
Byung-jae Kwak, Seoul, KR;
Nah-oak Song, Daejon, KR;
Jae-young Kim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Provided is a method for switching a piconet device to a coordinator in a piconet. The method receives the latest order of precedence as the next PNC information from the current PNC. Thereafter, the method detects a P-CTA allocated to devices of the piconet using a beacon of a superframe received from the PNC. On failing to receive a beacon from the PNC, the method detects whether 'beacon non-receipt' indicating information that is transmitted between piconet devices during the detected P-CTA. If the 'beacon non-receipt' indicating information is not detected, the method does not perform a PNC appropriation operation. If the “beacon non-receipt” indicating information is detected, the method determines that the PNC has left the piconet without performing a normal PNC handover procedure and thus performs a PNC appropriation operation according to the order of precedence information.