SIGNALING TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RELAY NODES USED IN THAT METHOD

摘要

A signaling transmission management method and relay nodes used in that method wherein the load at a terminating node can be reduced, the waste of network resources can be suppressed, and the load at each of nodes between the terminating node and a node, at which signalings gather, can be reduced. There are included a step in which among relay nodes, a first relay node (2), which is located at a path branching point of a communication network, copies a global signaling (102) received from a data transmitting node (100), then imparts predetermined information into the copied signalings (a,b), and then transmits the copied signalings to the respective ones of a plurality of branched paths; and a step in which among the relay nodes, a second relay node (7), which receives the copied signalings, corrects the collected copied signalings into a single global signaling (102') when determining, based on the predetermined information included in the received copied signalings, that the second relay node (7) itself is a correcting node, and then transmits the single global signaling (102').