POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method, a system and a network element for controlling the transmission of a message to be transmitted point-to-multipoint in a mobile communication system. In order to take the topicality of the content of the message to be transmitted point-to-multipoint into account, a life time is determined for the message in the method and the message waiting to be transmitted is deleted from the buffer (210) in response to the expiry of the life time.