SELECTIVE LAYER-2 FLUSHING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINALS
A method includes classifying signaling messages to be transmitted from a mobile communication terminal (20) into one or more classes, wherein each class corresponds to a respective event relating to the terminal and specifies the signaling messages that become irrelevant when the event occurs. The signaling messages are queued for transmission in a queue (40). In response to detecting an occurrence of a given event, the irrelevant signaling messages are removed from the queue based on the class specifying irrelevant signaling messages corresponding to the given event.