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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2012
Wolfgang Rittner, Ahrensbok, DE;
Rudiger Meckes, Berkenthin, DE;
Peter Glosekotter, Steinfurt, DE;
Gunter Boomgaarden, Scharbeutz, DE;
Wolfgang Rittner, Ahrensbok, DE;
Rudiger Meckes, Berkenthin, DE;
Peter Glosekotter, Steinfurt, DE;
Gunter Boomgaarden, Scharbeutz, DE;
Zodiac Aerotechnics, Plaisir, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for activating and maintaining a plurality of separate and distanced functional units in an aircraft cabin. According to the invention, a wireless network comprising a plurality of nodes is initialized, wherein each node is associated with a device wherein said initializing comprises associating each node a sending time slot within a time frame using a TDMA synchronization scheme, wherein each node is active to send signals during its sending time slot and is active to receive signals during a first set of time slots comprising a number of time slots of said frame, wherein the sending time slot of a node is different from the sending time slots of at least a plurality of its neighbored nodes.