公开(公告)号：US20080107024A1

公开(公告)日：2008-05-08

申请号：US11557886

申请日：2006-11-08

申请人： Kevin R. Driscoll ,  Brendan Hall ,  Michael Paulitsch

发明人： Kevin R. Driscoll ,  Brendan Hall ,  Michael Paulitsch

IPC分类号： H04L12/56 ,  H04J1/16

CPC分类号： H04L12/44 ,  H04L43/0811 ,  H04L43/50

摘要： A method of communicating node status in a star network comprising a hub and a plurality of nodes comprises sending a first message to the hub from a first node included in the plurality of nodes; forwarding the first message from the hub to at least one second node included in the plurality of nodes; communicating status information to the hub from the at least one second node after receiving at least a portion of the first message at the at least one second node; compiling a status vector based on the status information received from each of the at least one second nodes; and sending the status vector from the hub to at least the first node.

摘要翻译： 在包括集线器和多个节点的星形网络中传送节点状态的方法包括：从包括在所述多个节点中的第一节点向所述集线器发送第一消息; 将所述第一消息从所述集线器转发到所述多个节点中包括的至少一个第二节点; 在所述至少一个第二节点收到所述第一消息的至少一部分之后，从所述至少一个第二节点向所述集线器传送状态信息; 基于从所述至少一个第二节点中的每一个接收到的状态信息来编译状态向量; 以及将所述状态向量从所述集线器发送到至少所述第一节点。

公开(公告)号：US20080080551A1

公开(公告)日：2008-04-03

申请号：US11537305

申请日：2006-09-29

申请人： Kevin R. Driscoll ,  Brendan Hall ,  Michael Paulitsch

发明人： Kevin R. Driscoll ,  Brendan Hall ,  Michael Paulitsch

IPC分类号： H04J3/22

CPC分类号： H04L12/42 ,  H04L12/437

摘要： In one embodiment, a network comprises a plurality of nodes that are communicatively coupled to one another using bidirectional, half-duplex links. The network has a logical first channel over which data is propagated along the network in a first direction and a logical second channel over which data is propagated along the network in a second direction. For a given period of time, at least one of the plurality of nodes is scheduled to be a transmitting node that transmits data on both the first channel and the second channel. A first subset of the nodes not scheduled to transmit during the period are scheduled to relay data received from the first channel along the first channel. A second subset of the nodes not scheduled to transmit during the period are scheduled to relay data received from the second channel along the second channel. At least one of the nodes not scheduled to transmit during the period does not relay any data on at least one of that node's outbound links for at least one of the first channel and the second channel.

摘要翻译： 在一个实施例中，网络包括使用双向半双工链路彼此通信地耦合的多个节点。 网络具有逻辑第一信道，数据沿第一方向沿网络传播，数据沿第二方向沿着网络传播到逻辑第二信道。 在给定的时间段内，多个节点中的至少一个被调度为在第一信道和第二信道上都发送数据的发送节点。 调度在该周期期间未调度发送的节点的第一子集被调度为沿着第一信道中继从第一信道接收的数据。 调度在该周期期间未调度发送的节点的第二子集被调度为沿着第二信道中继从第二信道接收的数据。 在该周期期间未调度发送的节点中的至少一个节点不会在该第一信道和第二信道中的至少一个的该节点的出站链路中的至少一个上中继任何数据。