METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A TOPOLOGY OF A NETWORK OF WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS

Determined is a topology of a communication network composed of a plurality of nodes connected or not respectively to at least one item of equipment, one of the nodes, referred to as the root node, being connected to an external network. A service class is determined for each node, from each node, information is obtained representing the quality of the link between the node and other nodes, for each link, parameters representing the quality of the link are calculated, the nodes are classified according to the service class thereof and according to the number of links making up the path that separates them from the root node, for each node and according to the classification, the possible paths connecting the node to the root node are determined, a score is calculated for each path determined, the path is selected for the node having the best score.