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Due to high frequent wear and tear or other faults in use, it is important to implement a fault-tolerant communicating network for e-textiles that can be easily woven into a fabric. In this paper, we introduce token buses to connect the nodes, instead of the single rings in the original e-textile token grid. The topology of the new network is described. And we also discuss the media access control protocols and the reliable operations. Simulation results show that the new e-textile communication network can improve the ability of e-textile applications to tolerate faults and provide the communicating services of less delay.
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Zheng, N., Wu, Z., Chen, L., Zhou, Y., Wang, Q. (2006). A Dependable Communication Network for e-Textiles. In: Alexandrov, V.N., van Albada, G.D., Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2006. ICCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11758549_125
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