Method for the insertion and processing of information for the control, by a node, of the broadcasting of a data stream going through a basic network of a heterogeneous network, and corresponding nodes

Abstract

A method for insertion of information for control of broadcasting of a data stream in a heterogeneous network, the network including an entry sub-network conveying first packets and a basic network conveying second packets. The sub-network is connected to the basic network by an entry node forming the second packets. The node receives first packets from the sub-network, associates an access level with each first packet from a plurality of access levels, as a function of a predetermined policy of association, forms each second packet by enclosing at least a first packet or part thereof into the second packet, the enclosed first packets or part thereof being associated with a same access level, for each second packet, inserts, into a field of the second packet representing the broadcast control information, the same access level, and transmits the formed second packets into the basic network.