BEACON FOR A STAR NETWORK, SENSOR NODES IN A STAR NETWORK, METHOD FOR INITIALIZING A GATEWAY IN A STAR NETWORK AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A STAR NETWORK

摘要

A beacon for a star network comprising a gateway and at least one sensor node, where the beacon includes fields containing information on the length of a base time-slot and information on the number of used base time-slots per management time-slot, where the management time-slots are used at least to transmit configurations for the star network. In addition, the sensor node in the star network includes a data structure for saving a star network configuration, and the data structure includes a configuration gateway ID and a configuration sequence number as attributes.