Multiplex transmission method
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1. A multiplex transmission method for performing time-divisional distributed multiplex transmission operations among a plurality of communication nodes, comprising the steps of:
- adding a check bit at a transmission node to a signal transmitted from said transmission node, said transmission node being one of said plurality of communication nodes and said check bit indicating a status of said signal;
causing said check bit to have a predetermined change every time a new signal is transmitted from said transmission node to a reception node which is one of said plurality of communication nodes, said predetermined change giving rise to a change of a value of said check bit which is different from a value of a check bit added to a previously transmitted signal;
detecting at said transmission node presence or absence of a communication node which has not normally received the signal transmitted from said transmission node, in said plurality of communication nodes;
re-transmitting the signal from said transmission node, without changing the status of said check bit, in accordance with a detection result obtained at said detecting step; and
determining, at said reception node which has received said signal, whether said signal is a re-transmitted signal on a basis of a comparison result between a first status of a check bit associated with a previously received signal and a second status of a check bit associated with a currently received signal;
wherein if the first status and the second status agree, it is determined at said determining step that the received signal is the re-transmitted signal.
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A multiplex transmission method in which time-divisional multiplex transmission operations are performed among a plurality of communication nodes, and every time a node transmits a new signal, it changes the state of a re-transmission check bit added to the signal. When a signal is re-transmitted, each node sets the re-transmission check bit to be the same as that of the new signal to be re-transmitted. Each node can properly determine whether or not a reception signal is a new or re-transmission signal for the self node.
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1. A multiplex transmission method for performing time-divisional distributed multiplex transmission operations among a plurality of communication nodes, comprising the steps of:
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adding a check bit at a transmission node to a signal transmitted from said transmission node, said transmission node being one of said plurality of communication nodes and said check bit indicating a status of said signal; causing said check bit to have a predetermined change every time a new signal is transmitted from said transmission node to a reception node which is one of said plurality of communication nodes, said predetermined change giving rise to a change of a value of said check bit which is different from a value of a check bit added to a previously transmitted signal; detecting at said transmission node presence or absence of a communication node which has not normally received the signal transmitted from said transmission node, in said plurality of communication nodes; re-transmitting the signal from said transmission node, without changing the status of said check bit, in accordance with a detection result obtained at said detecting step; and determining, at said reception node which has received said signal, whether said signal is a re-transmitted signal on a basis of a comparison result between a first status of a check bit associated with a previously received signal and a second status of a check bit associated with a currently received signal; wherein if the first status and the second status agree, it is determined at said determining step that the received signal is the re-transmitted signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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