Patent ID: 8089915
Filing Date: 2012-01-03
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of transmitting data in a synchronous communications network that includes a plurality of nodes, wherein a super frame is communicated based on a network cycle on the network and includes a plurality of frames, wherein each frame is associated with one of the nodes and includes a payload part that includes an own data section and a repeat data section, wherein the plurality of nodes include at least one relay node associated with an application generating own data of the relay node to be transmitted to at least one destination node, and wherein the method is performed by the relay node, the method comprising steps of: receiving frames from other of the nodes; reading a predetermined part of data from the received frames and obtaining repeat data; writing the repeat data in the repeat data section of a new frame; and writing the own data of the relay node in the own data section of the new frame; and transmitting the new frame.