METHOD OF TRANSMITTING REAL-TIME MESSAGES ON-BOARD SPACECRAFTS Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC H04L12/00 

FIELD: processing and transmission of information.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to information transmission devices in form of packets and can be used to transmit information messages between electronic devices of different degree of intelligence. To transmit information, SYNCnet nodes network is used, wherein messages are transmitted through a system of switches over unidirectional virtual channels with one source on an end station and at least one receiver at one or more end stations, respectively. Messages are transmitted to the transmitting device strictly periodically. Messages on each virtual channel are limited by their value and divided into frames of fixed size. Time of the method application is divided into equal time intervals – time slots, during each of which frames of the specified fixed size are sent. Transmission of frames in a network from different nodes to neighboring nodes during one time slot is carried out simultaneously.

EFFECT: high quality of communication between terminal stations on board spacecraft.

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