METHOD FOR SENDING MESSAGES AMONG A GROUP OF SUBSETS FORMING A NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to a method for transmitting messages between networked subscriber units, which improves the network overall efficiency and allows the traffic load on the network units to be more uniformly distributed. At least one network service unit is assigned from the subscriber units to receive and intermediately store the messages. Each of the network elements generates a periodically transmitted service signal including identification and status information of the network element. On the basis of the received service signals, each of the network elements generates an accessibility ranked list 9 of all operative network elements, including a field 10 with identification of a subscriber unit, field 11 indicating the subscriber unit's function and field 12 indicating accessibility of the appropriate network element. The message is transmitted to the destination unit over a route determined on the basis of the ranked list of the network elements.