Communications network and method of routing messages within the network

摘要

A communications network includes a plurality of nodes with unique identities and a server unit. Each node is provided with a first storing device for storing a list of all nodes neighboring the node which are directed to it and a second storing device containing a data field which forms an array of cells indexed for all nodes in the network. A third storing device is provided in the server unit for forming a temporary queue. Messages are routed within the network by transforming a graph-representation of the network into a tree model with the destination node as root. This tree is the shortest which the graph can be transformed into.