Energy-saving operation of a communication system
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorAndreas Mueller
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for operating a communication system (100) having a plurality of communication units (300, 301, 302, 303, 304) which are connected to a communication medium (110), wherein access to the communication medium (110) is granted to the communication units (300, 301, 302, 303, 304) in a predefined order, wherein, after the end of a standby mode, a communication unit (300, 301, 302, 303, 304) checks whether it is granted access and changes to the standby mode again for a pause duration (T1, T2) until access is likely to be granted to it again if the communication unit (300, 301, 302, 303, 304) does not require access to the communication medium (110) or is not granted access.
Claims16
A method for operating a communication system (100) which has a plurality of communication units (300, 301, 302, 303, 304) which are connected to a communication medium (110), the method comprising:
- granting the communication units (300, 301, 302, 303, 304) access to the communication medium (110) in a predefined sequence,
- wherein, after the end of a standby mode, each of the plurality of communication units (300, 301, 302, 303, 304)
- checks whether it is granted access to the communication medium;
- and
- switches to the standby mode once more for a pause duration (T1, T2) until the respective communication unit is likely to be granted access again, if the respective communication unit (300, 301, 302, 303, 304) does not require access to the communication medium (110) or it is not granted access to the communication medium.
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