Patent ID: 8873386

Claim:
A method of regulating traffic in a telecommunications network, including a first step of detecting a fault affecting a node or a link of the network, wherein the following second step is then executed: nodes located directly upstream from a node/link that experienced the fault forward to the node/link that experienced fault registration requests sent by users of the telecommunications network, to an extent that a throughput of said fault registration requests is below a predetermined clipping threshold associated with the fault registration requests, the predetermined clipping threshold being determined before the first step of detecting the fault; if the throughput of the fault registration requests exceeds said predetermined clipping threshold, excess fault registrations requests are not forwarded to the node/link that experienced the fault, and the telecommunications network sends to each user that sent a request that is not forwarded to the node/link that experienced the fault, a response prompting each said user to observe a time-out period, said response specifying a recommended duration of said time-out period; wherein the telecommunications network has measured a duration of the fault and a respective recommended duration for fault registration requests or for subscription requests of a predetermined type is an increasing function of said duration of the fault, up to a respective predetermined upper limit.