Routing of a communication in a wireless telecommunications network

A method for routing a communication comprising data packets in a mesh wireless telecommunication network including a plurality of communication nodes (2), the method comprising in combination the operations of:

• arranging in each node (2) a plurality of transceiver units (4, 6, 8, 10) arranged to transmit and receive the data packets using a pre-established transmission channel;
• arranging processing means, associated with each node (2) and able to process message data comprising attributes for identifying at least one transmitter node (20) and at least one receiver node (22) of the message;
• defining for each node (2) a plurality of static criteria indicative of nominal configuration parameters of the nodes (2) and dynamic criteria indicative of current operational conditions of the nodes (2);
• sending from the transmitter node (20) to a plurality of intermediate receiver nodes (2) data querying the nodes (2) to search for at least one transmission route for the message data to the at least one receiver node (22);
• repeating the sending of the query data from at least one of the intermediate receiver nodes (2), selected according to the static and dynamic criteria, to successive nodes in order to reach the at least one receiver node (22) thus defining an optimal route (24);
• receiving at the transmitter node (20), along the optimal route (24), response data originating from the at least one receiver node (22);
• routing the message data along the optimal route (24), from the transmitter node (20) to the receiver node (22).