Method of forwarding a received message in a mesh network comprising a plurality of communicatively interconnected mesh nodes as well as a corresponding mesh node

A mesh node arranged for operation in a mesh network comprising a plurality of communicatively interconnected mesh nodes, wherein the mesh node comprises:

• receive equipment arranged for receiving, from another node in the mesh network, a message to be forwarded in said mesh network;
• a processor configured by executable instructions to determine that said message is intended for a particular neighbour mesh node in the mesh network, and that the particular neighbor mesh node is one hop away from the first mesh node;
• and
• transmit equipment operably coupled to the processor, whereby the processor and transmit equipment are configured to forward a plurality of repetitions of the message, by unicast transmission, only to the particular neighbor mesh node, wherein successive repetitions of the message are separated by corresponding time delays, and wherein each time delay is predetermined.