Management of a communication in a heterogeneous network

摘要

A communication of a first terminal is managed in a communication network comprising subnetworks. The first terminal can communicate with at least one second terminal and at least one subnetwork of the network is accessible via this second terminal. At the level of the first terminal, information relating to resources of the subnetwork which is accessible via the second terminal is received from the second terminal. On the basis of this information, a subnetwork is selected for the communication of the first terminal from among a set of subnetworks of the network comprising at least this subnetwork accessible via the second terminal.

主权项

1. A method for managing a communication from a first terminal in a communication network comprising subnetworks, said communication being established on a first subnetwork of the communication network, accessible via the first terminal, said first terminal being capable of communicating with at least one second terminal, at least one subnetwork being accessible via said second terminal, said method comprising the following steps at the first terminal:
/a/ receiving from the second terminal, data relating to the transmission resources of said subnetwork accessible via the second terminal offered for the communication; /b/ selecting, on the basis of said resource data, for the communication from the first terminal, a subnetwork accessible via the second terminal among a group of subnetworks of the communication network comprising at least said subnetwork, accessible via the second terminal, wherein the quality of service offered by the selected subnetwork is greater than the quality of service of said first subnetwork; /c/ sending to the selected subnetwork via the second terminal a request to reserve resources in said selected subnetwork; and /d/ transferring the communication of the first terminal from the first subnetwork to said selected subnetwork accessible via the second terminal.