Method for managing a communication network comprising wireless links with more than two wireless devices

1. A method for managing resets in a communication network comprising wireless devices connecting busses over a wireless link, comprising:

electing a parent wireless device among the wireless devices of the network, other wireless devices being labeled child wireless devices;

detecting, at a first child wireless device, a bus reset on said first child wireless device's local bus;

having the first child wireless device send a bus reset message to the parent wireless device;

having the parent wireless device sends a parent bus reset message to other child wireless devices;

having the other child wireless devices perform a bus reset on said other child wireless devices' local wired bus.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein for the purpose of generating the bus reset, the parent wireless device sends to each child device the self-ids of the nodes of the entire network, except the nodes connected to the child device's bus.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the bus reset message sent by the first child device contains self id packets of the nodes of this child device's bus.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising having the parent device send an acknowledge message to the first child device upon completion of the bus reset by the other child devices.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the busses are connected transparently as far as nodes connected to the busses are concerned, further comprising:

associating a wireless device with a central controller of the wireless link;

verifying whether the transparent connection of the wireless device results in an authorized network topology, and,

if the transparent connection of the wireless device does not result in an authorized topology, forbidding the transparent connection, maintaining the association, and rechecking the network topology condition at certain moments to reinitiate connection.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the network topology condition is the total number of devices on the network.

7. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising verifying the network topology condition when a new device is added on a bus which is already transparently connected to the network through a wireless device and disconnecting said bus if the resulting network topology is not authorized, but maintaining association.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the disconnected wireless device tries to connect again under one of the following conditions: the number of devices on said disconnected wireless device's bus has decreased or the number of devices on the rest of the network has decreased.