| 摘要 |
A method and an apparatus for assigning a time slot for transmitting a beacon in a wireless sensor network operated in a beacon mode are provided. In the method and apparatus for assigning a time slot according to the present invention, the total time slots assigned to the network are divided into N blocks and a node to which a time slot is exclusively assigned, among nodes to which a specific node is capable of directly and wirelessly transmitting, is selected as a parent node, the network is divided into two or more regions centering the parent node, a block having the time slot assigned to the parent node and adjacent blocks, among the N blocks, are respectively assigned to the regions, a time slot having been yet unassigned, among the time slots belonging to the block assigned to the region to which the specific node belongs among the divided regions, is assigned as the time slot of the specific node.
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