Patent ID: 7224667

Claim:
A process for keeping and/or restoring communications within a network with planned resources, said network comprising stations arranged in at least one group, wherein each group includes at least two stations linked together, and links between the at least two stations can change with time, the process comprising: associating a dummy station to one of said at least one group, the dummy station comprising resources keeping an image of the communications existing in the at least one group, the dummy station not participating in the communications itself and configured to materialize into a real station, wherein the resources are allocated to the at least two stations in the at least one group; setting-up at least one relay station to keep and/or to restore communications between the at least two stations of the at least one group, based on information about how a group structure evolves; and reallocating resources of the dummy station to the at least one relay station after said setting-up, based on the information about how the group structure evolves; wherein said network comprises a L16 multifunctional information distribution system (MIDS) land network.