
49-6 Industrial Communication Systems
master device. e master device is used as the reference for communication between all the piconets,
while
any
device
can
belong
to
multiple
piconets.
A
piconet
oers
the
same
frequency-hopping
channel
to
the connected devices.
49.2.8.2
Scatternet
Once
a
device
belongs
to
multiple
piconets,
the
master
devices
of
the
corresponding
piconets
need
to
be
connected
among
themselves
in
order
to
make
this
access
available,
which
ultimately
forms
a
scatternet.
e
frequency
distribution
is
simple
and
can
work
without
interfering
with
others,
as
each
piconet
is
responsible
for the distribution to its connected devic ...