Communication control device, information processing device, information processing method, and program

• US 10,454,621 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2016
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sakai, Eisuke, Morioka, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Hassan A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sharma, Gautam
• Application Number:
  US15/578,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20180145793A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/16 in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1621 Group acknowledgement, i.e. the acknowledgement message defining a range of identifiers, e.g. of sequence numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A communication control device includes a control unit. The control unit included in the communication control device performs control to notify an information processing device of a period for the information processing device to acquire information regarding a communication state in the information processing device. The control unit included in the communication control device further performs control to cause the information processing device to notify the information regarding the communication state acquired in the period and to determine a destination of a delivery confirmation request on the basis of the information regarding the communication state. Thereby, a destination of a delivery confirmation request can be appropriately determined.

Claims

1. A communication control device, comprising:

circuitry configured to;

notify a plurality of information processing devices of a period to acquire measurement information regarding a communication state in the plurality of information processing devices;

receive a notification from a first information processing device in the plurality of information processing devices, wherein the first information processing device determines to transmit the notification in a case that the measurement information acquired in the period satisfies a predetermined condition indicated by the communication control device; and

determine the first information processing device as a destination of a delivery confirmation request in the plurality of information processing devices, on the basis of the notification from the first information processing device.

2. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the measurement information regarding the communication state acquired in the period by each of the plurality of information processing devices includes a reception characteristic information in each of the plurality of information processing devices, and

the circuitry is configured to receive the notification from the first information processing device, in a case where the reception characteristic information of the first information processing device satisfies the predetermined condition.

3. The communication control device according to claim 2,

wherein the reception characteristic information includes at least one of a throughput, a packet loss rate, a number of multicast packets successfully received by the first information processing device and addressed to a multicast group to which the first information processing device belongs, and a ratio of a sum of noise power and interference power relative to a desired signal power.

4. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to notify the plurality of information processing devices of period information for specifying a start and an end of the period of measurement.

5. The communication control device according to claim 4, wherein the circuitry is configured to notify the plurality of information processing devices, as the period information, of at least one of start time of the period and a sequence number for starting the period of the measurement and at least one of a duration of the period and end time of the period of the measurement.

6. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to notify the plurality of information processing devices of notification period information for specifying a notification period during which at least one of the plurality of information processing devices can notify the communication control device of information regarding the communication state as the notification.

7. The communication control device according to claim 6,

wherein the circuitry is configured to notify the plurality of information processing devices, as the notification period information, of start time of the notification period and at least one of a duration of the notification period and end time of the notification period.

8. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to receive the notification by using an alert frame from the first information processing device.

9. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to notify the plurality of information processing devices of an identifier of an index indicating a reception characteristic in the plurality of information processing devices, the identifier being information for specifying the information regarding the communication state.

10. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to include at least one of the information regarding the period, information for specifying the measurement information regarding the communication state, and notification period information for specifying a notification period during which the communication control device can be notified, in a Radio Measurement Request frame or a part of a concatenated frame in which a plurality of frames are concatenated, to transmit to the plurality of information processing devices.

11. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to receive the notification from the first information processing device, only in a case that the first information processing device determines that the measurement information acquired in the period does not exceed a threshold of reception characteristic indicated by the communication control device.

12. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to receive the notification from the first information processing device, only in a case that the first information processing device determines that the measurement information acquired in the period does not exceed a first threshold of reception characteristic indicated by the communication control device.

13. The communication control device according to claim 12,

wherein the circuitry dose not receive the notification from the first information processing device, in a case that the first information processing device determines that the measurement information acquired in the period does not exceed a second threshold of reception characteristic indicated by the communication control device, the second threshold of the reception characteristic being smaller than the first threshold of the reception characteristic.

14. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to change a number of the destination of a delivery confirmation request in the plurality of information processing devices, based on congestion degree information included in the notification received from the first information processing device.

15. An information processing device, comprising:

circuitry configured to;

receive period information from a communication control device, the period information being for acquiring measurement information regarding a communication state in the information processing device;

transmit a notification to the communication control device, when the circuitry determines that the measurement information acquired in the period satisfies a predetermined condition indicated by the communication control device, the communication control device determining the information processing device as a destination of a delivery confirmation request in a group of information processing devices, on the basis of the notification from the information processing device.

16. The information processing device according to claim 15, wherein the measurement information regarding the communication state acquired in the period by the information processing device includes a reception characteristic information.

17. The information processing device according to claim 16, wherein the reception characteristic information is one of a value corresponding to an index indicating a reception characteristic in the information processing device and a value corresponding to an identifier of the index.

18. The information processing device according to claim 15, wherein the circuitry is configured to include the information regarding the communication state in a Radio Measurement Report frame or a Block Ack frame to transmit the information to the communication control device.

19. The information processing device according to claim 15, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit the notification to the communication control device, only in a case that the circuitry determines that the measurement information acquired in the period does not exceed a first threshold of reception characteristic indicated by the communication control device.

20. An information processing method, comprising:

notifying a plurality of information processing devices of a period to acquire measurement information regarding a communication state in the plurality of information processing devices;

receiving a notification from a first information processing device in the plurality of information processing devices, wherein the first information processing device determines to transmit the notification in a case that the measurement information acquired in the period satisfies a predetermined condition indicated by the communication control device; and

determining the first information processing device as a destination of a delivery confirmation request in the plurality of information processing devices, on the basis of the notification from the first information processing device.