RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD
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Abstract
A radio communication apparatus mounted on a mobile body establishes a local network using terminals and relays a packet transmitted and received between a predetermined terminal connected to the local network and a server connected to an external network, which is another network. The radio communication apparatus includes an uplink-traffic monitoring unit and a downlink-traffic monitoring unit to extract header information from packets received from the server and the terminal, a policy table that registers policy information indicating possibility of communication connection establishment for each combination of the server and the terminal and a priority degree of the communication connection, a priority-degree determining unit to determine whether relay processing for the packet is performed, and an uplink-traffic control unit and a downlink-traffic control unit to discard the received packet when the priority-degree determining unit determines that the relay processing is not performed.
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40 Claims
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21. A radio communication apparatus mounted on a mobile body that establishes a local network using a plurality of terminals and configured to relay a packet transmitted and received between a predetermined terminal connected to the local network and a server connected to an external network, which is another network, the radio communication apparatus comprising:
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a traffic monitoring unit configured to extract header information from packets received from the server and the terminal; a policy registering section that registers policy information indicating possibility of communication connection establishment for each combination of the server and the terminal and a priority degree of the communication connection; a priority-degree determining unit configured to determine, when a packet is received from the server or the terminal, based on the header information and the policy information, whether relay processing for the packet is performed; and a traffic control unit configured to discard the received packet when the priority-degree determining unit determines that the relay processing is not performed. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A radio communication method for a radio communication apparatus mounted on a mobile body that establishes a local network using a plurality of terminals and configured to relay a packet transmitted and received between a predetermined terminal connected to the local network and a server connected to an external network, which is another network, the radio communication apparatus including a policy registering section that registers policy information indicating possibility of communication connection establishment for each combination of the server and the terminal and a priority degree of the communication connection,
the radio communication method comprising: -
a header extracting step of extracting header information from a packet received from the server or the terminal; a priority degree determining step of determining, based on the extracted header information and the policy information registered in the policy registering section, whether relay processing for the received packet is performed; and a traffic control step of discarding the received packet when it is determined that the relay processing is not performed. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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Specification