SESSION CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20080071914A1
• Filed: 09/18/2007
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masashi, Okazaki, Takashi, Miura, Shuhei, Kimura, Motonobu, Naito, Kaname
• Application Number:
  US11/857,153
• Publication Number:
  US 20080071914A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/724 at intermediate nodes, e.g. resource reservation protocol [RSVP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1066 Session management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2876 Pairs of inter-processing entities at each side of the network, e.g. split proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures

Abstract

A first session proxy device is disposed between a client device having no control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein and a bandwidth guaranteed network. A second session proxy device is disposed between a server device having no control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein and the bandwidth guaranteed network. When the client device and the server perform communication over the bandwidth guaranteed network, the first session proxy device establishes a bandwidth securing session in the bandwidth guaranteed network, in place of the client device, while second session proxy device establishes a bandwidth securing session in the bandwidth guaranteed network, in place of the server device.

Claims

1. A session control system which controls a bandwidth securing session on a bandwidth guaranteed network in which bandwidth-secured packet-based communication is enabled by management of the band securing session, comprising:

a first session proxy device which is disposed between a client device not having a control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein and said bandwidth guaranteed network and which establishes a bandwidth securing session in said bandwidth guaranteed network, in place of said client device when said client device performs communication over said bandwidth guaranteed network; and

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a second session proxy device which is disposed between a server device not having said control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein and said bandwidth guaranteed network and which establishes a bandwidth securing session with said first session proxy device, in place of said server device when said server device performs communication with said client device over said bandwidth guaranteed network.

2. The session control system according to claim 1, wherein said first session proxy device, when receiving a connect request from said client device to said server device, checks a bandwidth to be secured for the communication required for said connect request and establishes a bandwidth securing session for securing the bandwidth.

3. The session control system according to claim 2, wherein said server device is an application server that provides a service having predetermined applications to said client device, and said first session proxy device, when receiving from said client device a connect request for receiving said application service from said server device, checks a bandwidth to be secured for the application communication based on the type of the application or the bandwidth information in said connect request, and establishes a bandwidth securing session for securing the bandwidth.

4. The session control system according to claim 3, wherein said first session proxy device has bandwidth management data that represents the correspondence between the types of applications and the bandwidths to be secured for communication of the applications, stored beforehand, and checks up the bandwidth to be secured for said application communication by referring to the bandwidth management data.

5. The session control system according to claim 3, wherein said first session proxy device checks up a bandwidth to be secured for the application communication by inquiring an application bandwidth that holds bandwidth management data representing the correspondence between the types of applications and the bandwidths to be secured for communication of the applications.

6. The session control system according to claim 1, wherein said first session proxy device, when receiving a connect request from said client device to said server device, establishes a bandwidth securing session with said second session proxy device while temporarily holding the connect request, and transmits said connect request to said bandwidth guaranteed network after securing the predetermined bandwidth.

7. The session control system according to claim 1, wherein, when said first session proxy device is informed of a disconnect request from said client device, transmits the disconnect request to said bandwidth guaranteed network, and releases said bandwidth securing session with said second session proxy device after reception of the response to the disconnect request.

8. A session proxy device which controls a bandwidth securing session on a bandwidth guaranteed network in which bandwidth-secured packet-based communication is enabled by management of the band securing session, comprising:

a proxy processor for monitoring an application signal sent from an information communicating device having no control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein to said bandwidth guaranteed network and detecting a connect request from the application signal; and

a session control protocol portion for establishing a bandwidth securing session inside said bandwidth guaranteed network in place of said information communicating device when said proxy processor detects said connect request.

9. The session proxy device according to claim 8, wherein when said proxy processor receives a connect request from said information communicating device, said session control protocol portion checks up a bandwidth to be secured for the communication required for the connect request and establishes a bandwidth securing session for securing the bandwidth.

10. The session proxy device according to claim 9, wherein said information communicating device is a client to be connected to an application server that provides a predetermined application service, and

when said proxy processor receives a connect request from said client for receiving the application service of said application server, said session control protocol portion checks a bandwidth to be secured for the application communication, based on the type of the application or the bandwidth information in said connect request and establishes a bandwidth securing session for securing the bandwidth.

11. The session proxy device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a bandwidth information manager that has bandwidth management data representing the correspondence between the types of applications and the bandwidths to be secured for the application communication, stored beforehand,

wherein said session control protocol processor checks a bandwidth to be secured for the application communication by referring to said bandwidth management data.

12. The session proxy device according to claim 10, wherein said session control protocol processor checks a bandwidth to be secured for the application communication by inquiring an application bandwidth manager that holds bandwidth management data representing the correspondence between the types of applications and the bandwidths to be secured for said application communication.

13. The session proxy device according to claim 8, wherein said proxy processor, when receiving a connect request from said information communicating device, establishes said bandwidth securing session so as to secure the predetermined bandwidth while holding the connect request, and transmits the connect request to said bandwidth guaranteed network.

14. The session proxy device according to claim 8, wherein said proxy processor, when receiving a disconnect request from said information communicating device, transmits the disconnect request to said bandwidth guaranteed network, and releases said bandwidth securing session after reception of the response to the disconnect request.

15. A communication method for performing bandwidth secured communication in a bandwidth guaranteed network in which bandwidth-secured packet-based communication is enabled by management of a band securing session, comprising:

deploying a first session proxy device between a client device not having a control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein and said bandwidth guaranteed network and deploying a second session proxy device between a server device not having said control protocol installed therein and said bandwidth guaranteed network,

establishing a bandwidth securing session between the first session proxy device and the second session proxy device by said first session proxy device in place of said client device and by said second session proxy device in place of said server device; and

performing communication between said client device and said server device by way of said bandwidth guaranteed network.

16. A session control system which controls a bandwidth securing session on a bandwidth guaranteed network in which bandwidth-secured packet-based communication is enabled by management of the band securing session, comprising:

first session proxy means which is disposed between a client device not having a control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein and said bandwidth guaranteed network and which establishes a bandwidth securing session in said bandwidth guaranteed network, in place of said client device when said client device performs communication over said bandwidth guaranteed network; and

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second session proxy means which is disposed between a server device not having said control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein and said bandwidth guaranteed network and which establishes a bandwidth securing session with said first session proxy means, in place of said server device when said server device performs communication with said client device over said bandwidth guaranteed network.

17. A session proxy device which controls a bandwidth securing session on a bandwidth guaranteed network in which bandwidth-secured packet-based communication is enabled by management of the band securing session, comprising:

proxy processing means for monitoring an application signal sent from an information communicating device having no control protocol for bandwidth securing sessions installed therein to said bandwidth guaranteed network and detecting a connect request from the application signal; and

session control protocol means for establishing a bandwidth securing session inside said bandwidth guaranteed network in place of said information communicating device when said proxy processing means detects said connect request.