METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• Main Authors: LELKENS, Armand, Michel, Marie, FAN, Rong, FRIMOUT, Emmanuel, David, Lucas, Michael, ZHANG, Zhizhong, WANG, Xiangyu, DONG, Peiliang, VAN HAASEN, Rick, FITSKI, Peter, HOUTEPEN, Robert, Cornelis
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 04.12.2019
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

The present invention relates to a method for operating a communication apparatus in a network comprising a plurality of communication nodes, upon reception of a message at the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus starting a retransmission delay being selected at random from a retransmission delay interval, said retransmission delay interval being dependent on at least one of a status of the communication apparatus and a property of the received message, the communication apparatus monitors retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes during said retransmission delay and the communication apparatus transmitting a retransmission of said message at the expiry of said retransmission delay if a statistic based on the retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes is below a threshold.