Control Apparatus and Control Method

• US 20130010621A1
• Filed: 07/05/2012
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ma, Yuanchen, He, Xuan, Yoshiuchi, Hideya
• Granted Patent: US 8,811,379 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/121 by minimising delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/08 based on transmission power
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The control apparatus is provided with a channel quality test module for collecting power consumption between adjacent gateways of the data transmission routes, a communication interface for collecting data delay of the respective gateways of the data transmission routes by performing data communication with the gateways, a memory for storing a gateway routing table containing the multiple data transmission routes, the power consumption collected by the channel quality test module, and the data delay collected by the communication interface, and a processor for adding priority to the multiple data transmission routes in the gateway routing table stored in the memory on the basis of the power consumption and data delay stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for a multiple gateway communication system having multiple data transmission routes for transmitting data via gateways, comprising:

a channel quality test module for collecting power consumption between adjacent gateways of the data transmission routes,

a communication interface for collecting data delay of the respective gateways of the data transmission routes by performing data communication with the gateways,

a memory for storing a gateway routing table containing the multiple data transmission routes, the power consumption collected by the channel quality test module, and the data delay collected by the communication interface, and

a processor for adding priority to the data transmission routes in the gateway routing table stored in the memory on the basis of the power consumption and data delay stored in the memory.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the channel quality test module further collects effective code rates of the data transmission routes,

the memory further stores the effective code rates collected by the channel quality test module, and

the processor adds priority to the data transmission routes in the gateway routing table stored in the memory on the basis of the power consumption, data delay and effective code rates stored in the memory.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the communication interface receives from the first gateway of the data transmission routes a data delay threshold requested for the data collected by the first gateway, and

the processor deletes the data transmission route having the total delay larger than the data delay threshold from the gateway routing table stored in the memory on the basis of the data delay threshold received from the communication interface and adds priority to the data transmission routes remained in the gateway routing table.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:

the data collected by the first gateway is classified into an extensible type and a fixed type according to the data delay threshold,

the processor previously creates for the fixed type of data a gateway routing table with priority added, and

the processor deletes for the extensible type of data a data transmission route having a total delay larger than the data delay threshold from the previously created gateway routing table on the basis of the data delay threshold of a network routing table request sent from the first gateway to the communication interface, newly adds priority to the data transmission routes remained in the gateway routing table, and sends the gateway routing table, to which the priority is newly added, to the first gateway via the communication interface.

5. A control method for a multiple gateway communication system having multiple data transmission routes for transmission of data via gateways, comprising:

a power consumption collection step for collecting power consumption between adjacent gateways of the data transmission routes,

a data delay collection step for collecting data delay of respective gateways of the data transmission routes, and

a routing table optimization step for adding priority to the data transmission routes in the gateway routing table containing the multiple data transmission routes on the basis of the power consumption collected in the power consumption collection step and the data delay collected in the data delay collection step.

6. The control method according to claim 5, further comprising:

an effective code rate collection step for collecting effective code rates of the data transmission routes, wherein;

the routing table optimization step adds priority to the data transmission routes in the gateway routing table containing the multiple data transmission routes on the basis of the power consumption collected in the power consumption collection step, the data delay collected in the data delay collection step, and the effective code rates collected in the effective code rate collection step.

7. The control method according to claim 5, further comprising:

a data delay threshold receiving step for receiving from a first gateway of the data transmission routes a data delay threshold which is requested for the data collected by the first gateway, wherein;

the routing table optimization step deletes a data transmission route having a total delay larger than the data delay threshold from the gateway routing table containing the multiple data transmission routes on the basis of the data delay threshold received in the data delay threshold receiving step, and adds priority to the data transmission routes remained in the gateway routing table.

8. The control method according to claim 7, wherein:

the data collected by the first gateway is classified into an extensible type and a fixed type according to the data delay threshold,

the routing table optimization step creates previously for the fixed type of data a gateway routing table having priority added, and

the routing table optimization step further deletes for the extensible type of data a data transmission route having a total delay larger than the data delay threshold from the previously created gateway routing table on the basis of the data delay threshold of the network routing table request from the first gateway received in the data delay threshold receiving step, newly adds priority to the data transmission routes remained in the gateway routing table, and sends the gateway routing table, to which the priority is newly added, to the first gateway.