Method for implementing cooperative multitasking in a message transmission network and network element therefor

摘要

A counter (CNT) and a threshold (THD) is assigned to each task (TA to TE). At the start of each processing cycle, a check is made to determine if at least one of the counters has exceeded its threshold. If it has, a task (TD) is selected and processed and its counter is reset. Those counters of the remaining tasks are increased by one count. The processing cycle is the re-run if it is determined that at least one other task (TC) is to be processed. A network element for a digital communication network is also claimed.