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AssigneesTraxens, Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
InventorsPascal Daragon, Natale Guzzo, Arulnambi Nandagoban, Nathalie Mitton
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The invention concerns a wireless communication network that is particularly innovative and robust when said the network, comprising a plurality of nodes, has a dynamic topology. A method implemented by a communicating electronic device acting as a free node of said the network can request, on demand, a procedure for affiliation with a second device that is a member of a cluster. Affiliated with the cluster, a device implementing the method can communicate with a third device acting as cluster head in the same way as a member of the cluster. Such an invention makes it possible, in particular, to operate a traceability system for containers cooperating respectively with such devices on a storage area or a transport platform.
A method implemented by a processing unit of a first communicating electronic device further including a data memory, first communication means providing nearby wireless communication with any other communicating electronic device situated within communication range within a cluster comprising a plurality of communicating electronic devices, said memory and said communication means cooperating with said processing unit, the data memory storing a value of an identifier dedicated to the first communicating electronic device and a register arranged to include the current value of an identifier of a communicating electronic device acting as a cluster head, said method including a step for sending a service message to the device acting as cluster head, and further comprising:
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