Patent ID: 7940789

Claim:
A method for rate regulation of radio link probing in a communication network comprising at least a receiver terminal and at least two transmitter terminals comprising: determining the amount of data sent by each transmitter terminal to the receiver terminal through respective radio links, the determining step comprising the step of accumulating a value of a function taking into account an amount of data received from respective transmitter terminals and wherein the value that is accumulated is reset after a probe for its corresponding transmitter terminal has been carried out; and when a probing of a radio link is to be made, probing the radio link corresponding to the transmitter terminal having sent the greatest amount of data since last a probe, the probing of a radio link comprising an evaluation of a quality criterion, the quality criterion being based on a predetermined response triggered by a triggering message comprising a packet with no payload data and corresponding to at least a reception condition associated to the probed radio link, at least one parameter of the radio link being modified if a value of evaluated quality criterion is better than a value of evaluated quality criterion of a last probe.