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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2009
Theodoros Salonidis, Paris, FR;
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Henrik Lundgren, Le Plessis Robinson, FR;
Theodoros Salonidis, Paris, FR;
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Henrik Lundgren, Le Plessis Robinson, FR;
Thomson Licensing, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
The invention concerns a method for synchronizing clocks of a set of nodes in a TDMA ('Time Division Multiple Access') communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, among which some called time reference (TR) nodes are synchronized to a common time reference through a predetermined out-of-band synchronization mechanism, other nodes being called non-TR nodes, each node comprising an internal clock, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: The invention also concerns a communication device in a TDMA communication network.