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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2017
Traxens, Marseilles, FR;
Inst Nat DE Recherche En Info ET En Automatique, Rocquencourt, FR;
Pascal Daragon, Greasque, FR;
Natale Guzzo, Marseilles, FR;
Nathalie Mitton, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FR;
Arulnambi Nandagoban, Marseilles, FR;
TRAXENS, Marseilles, FR;
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, Rocquencourt, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for joining a cluster comprising a plurality of communicating electronic devices. It also relates to any electronic device implementing said join method and any system comprising such a device. The latter advantageously comprises a processing unit, a data memory containing the value of an identifier dedicated to the device and a record to contain the current value of an identifier of a device acting as cluster head and a datum expressing the capacity of the latter to perform a specific service. The device also comprises a program memory containing instructions of a program the execution or interpretation of which by the processing unit causes the implementation of the join method.