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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2012
Giorgio Corbellini, Grenoble, FR;
Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Grenoble, FR;
Giorgio Corbellini, Grenoble, FR;
Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Grenoble, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an asynchronous communication method in a wireless sensor network comprising a tree structure. For each node of the network, the communication is organized as a sequence of time frames, each frame including a listening phase possibly followed by a receiving phase and/or a transmitting phase. The method, of the preamble sampling type, enables a node to make a time appointment to its child node to transmit them a time window allocation message, each child node then transmitting at least one data packet in the window it has been allocated to. By minimizing the collision risk between packets and by maximizing the time during which the sensors go to sleep, the communication method both reduces the latency and the consumption within the network.