COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK EXPLOITED WITH EXCESS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICE OPERATING Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC H04W40/00 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: communication device comprises: at least the first and the second transmission and reception units which respectively have an interface for network connection of field communication network, wherein both transmitting and receiving units have an identical network address and an identical device identifier, a signal processing unit for collisions-free data transmission within the field communication network, coupled to the first and the second devices for transmitting and receiving, wherein the signal processing unit has a multiplexer unit for parallel routing of data packets liable transferring to both transmission units, and a redundancy processing unit for processing data packets received by both receiving units, wherein the redundancy processing unit includes a filter unit which is configured to detect received redundancy data packet.

EFFECT: increased data transmission rate.

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