Patent ID: 8913596

Claim:
A method for regulating sending of data packets, implemented by a station having at least one data packet to be sent via a wireless communication network, the method comprising: a step of assigning an index value randomly to said station at the beginning of a tournament comprising selection rounds, wherein the index value is representative of the station's behavior during the tournament, at least one step of obtaining, for a selection round of said tournament, a binary value based on a function of the index value, wherein the binary value is representative of either a permission to send, or a prohibition to send, the binary value is allocated to said station for said selection round, and a step of sending said at least one packet, said sending step being executed on condition that at least one criterion relating to the obtained binary value is satisfied, wherein the binary value is dependent on said index value assigned randomly to said station and on a packet class to which said at least one packet to be sent belongs.