Alcatel Lucent

Peter Tabery

Ralf Klotsche

Joerg Schaepperle

There is provided a method of transmitting signaling messages. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the method is performed by a first base station of a communication network. The first base station and the second base station of the communication network provide simultaneously a service to a terminal. The first base station transmits signaling messages relating to the provision of the service to the second base station via a relay component. The relay component is linked with the first base station and the second base station via radio links of the communication network. The relay component may be comprised in the terminal to which the service is provided or another terminal with corresponding functionality or a dedicated relay component of the communication network.

Method of transmitting signaling messages

A method for protecting a network configuration set up by a spanning tree protocol, STP, by selecting one of a plurality of bridges (to) of a computer network () as a root bridge () and by selecting one of a plurality of bridge ports (to,) of each of the plurality of bridges (to) as a root port (to), the method comprising the steps of: setting a sub-state of at least one bridge port (to) of at least one of the bridges (to) to an active sub-state in case that bidirectional traffic passes through the bridge port (to), receiving an STP message, in particular a Bridge Protocol Data Unit, BPDU, in one of the bridge ports (to) being in the active sub-state, and protecting the network configuration by discarding the STP message and/or by sending an alarm message to a network management unit () in case that the STP message indicates a change of the root bridge () of the network configuration.

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Munich, Germany

Peter Tabery