COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING PHYSICAL CONNECTION POINT IDENTIFIERS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC H04W4/00 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: physical layer identification information is used when identifying a remote, e.g., adjacent, access node as a message recipient. Thus, when a connection identifier based on one or more physical layer identifiers is available to a wireless terminal, e.g., from one or more downlink signals received from a recipient access node, the wireless terminal can use the connection identifier corresponding to the recipient node to route a message via an access node with which it has an established uplink connection. Such connection identifier information can be used even when other addressing information, e.g., network layer address information, associated with the recipient access node, may not be available to the wireless terminal.

EFFECT: providing means of routing messages between an end node and an access node via another access node.

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