Patent ID: 9596142
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An on-board network on board an aircraft, the network comprising nodes linked by wired links and being partitioned into a plurality of sub-networks, two sub-networks being adjacent if at least one of the wired links them, the wired links between two adjacent sub-networks being each equipped with a security element to segregate the two adjacent sub-networks, wherein at least a first and a second adjacent sub-network are each equipped with at least one wireless access point, and wherein the first and second adjacent sub-networks belong to different communication domains, the access points respectively equipping the first and second adjacent sub-networks using different communication standards or separate sets of communication resources; wherein the access points equipping any two adjacent sub-networks use a common communication standard and separate sets of transmission resources; and wherein the on-board network re-uses the separate sets of transmission resources every M<N, M≧