AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO BUS DATA COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL

Systems and techniques are provided for communicating using an automotive audio bus. An example method can include receiving, by a first automotive audio bus manager, a request from a first automotive audio bus client for a first data transmission to a second automotive audio bus client, wherein a first size of the first data transmission exceeds a maximum data frame size; parsing the first data transmission into a first plurality of data frames based on the first size of the first data transmission and the maximum data frame size; sending a first header frame to a second automotive audio bus manager associated with the second automotive audio bus client, wherein the first header frame includes a first indication of a first incoming long message transmission and the first size of the first data transmission; and sending the first plurality of data frames to the second automotive audio bus manager.