COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20130107734A1
• Filed: 09/11/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kuroshita, Kazumasa
• Granted Patent: US 8,976,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0888 Throughput
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/76 using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation requested by the user or requested by the network in response to changing network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0058 Allocation criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0231 based on communication conditions dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition based on channel quality criteria H04W72/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0268 using specific QoS parameters for wireless networks, e.g. QoS class identifier [QCI] or guaranteed bit rate [GBR] negotiating SLA or negotiating QoS H04W28/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0284 detecting congestion or overload during communication monitoring arrangements H04L43/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0289 Congestion control load shedding arrangements in network planning H04W16/08; performing reselection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/20 Negotiating bandwidth
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes: a storage section to store a communication throughput of communication apparatuses, a reference value of the communication throughput and a reference adjustment value; a calculating section, when a current communication throughput of a self-sided communication apparatus exceeds a self reference value, to calculate a reference value of the communication apparatuses based on an upper limit value, the current communication throughput, and the communication throughput and the reference adjustment value in the storage section, the upper limit value corresponding to a total communication throughput of the communication apparatuses; an updating section to update the reference value with the calculated reference value in the communication apparatuses; a transmitter section to transmit the calculated reference value to an external communication apparatus; and a receiver section to receive the calculated reference value transmitted from the external communication apparatus and update the reference value with the calculated reference value.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a storage section configured to store a communication throughput of each of a plurality of communication apparatuses, a reference value of the communication throughput and a reference adjustment value to adjust the reference value;

a calculating section configured, when a current communication throughput between a self-sided communication apparatus and a center apparatus exceeds a self reference value, to calculate a reference value of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses based on an upper limit value, the current communication throughput, and the communication throughput and the reference adjustment value in the storage section, the upper limit value corresponding to a total communication throughput of the plurality of communication apparatuses;

an updating section configured to update the reference value in the storage section with the calculated reference value in the plurality of communication apparatuses;

a transmitter section configured to transmit the calculated reference value to an external communication apparatus; and

a receiver section configured to receive the calculated reference value transmitted from the external communication apparatus and update the reference value in the storage section with the calculated reference value.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of communication apparatuses perform data transmission with the center apparatus via a network.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising,

an obtaining section configured, when the current communication throughput exceeds the self reference value, to update the reference value, the communication throughput and the reference adjustment value in the storage section with a received reference value, a received communication throughput and a received reference adjustment value from a communication apparatus included in the plurality of communication apparatus, wherein

the calculating section calculates the reference value of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses based on the updated communication throughput and the updated reference adjustment value.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising,

a transmission setting section configured to set whether transmission data is transmitted from the self-sided communication apparatus to the center apparatus according to the reference adjustment value of the self-sided communication apparatus stored in the storage section.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reference adjustment value is greater as a total of the communication throughput of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses is greater.

6. A communication system comprising:

a plurality of communication apparatuses, each of the communication apparatuses including;

a storage section configured to store a communication throughput of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses, a reference value of the communication throughput and a reference adjustment value to adjust the reference value;

a calculating section configured, when a current communication throughput between a self-sided communication apparatus and a center apparatus exceeds a self reference value, to calculate a reference value of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses based on an upper limit value, the current communication throughput, and the communication throughput and the reference adjustment value in the storage section, the upper limit value corresponding to a total communication throughput of the plurality of communication apparatuses;

an updating section configured to update the reference value in the storage section with the calculated reference value in the plurality of communication apparatuses;

a transmitter section configured to transmit the calculated reference value to an external communication apparatus; and

a receiver section configured to receive the calculated reference value transmitted from the external communication apparatus and update the reference value in the storage section with the calculated reference value,

wherein

the plural communication apparatuses perform data transmission with the center apparatus via a network.

7. The communication system according to claim 6, wherein each of the plural communication apparatuses includes,

an obtaining section configured, when the current communication throughput exceeds the self reference value, to update the reference value, the communication throughput and the reference adjustment value in the storage section with a received reference value, a received communication throughput and a received reference adjustment value from a communication apparatus included in the plurality of communication apparatus, wherein

the calculating section calculates the reference value of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses based on the updated communication throughput and the updated reference adjustment value.

8. The communication system according to claim 6, wherein each of the plural communication apparatuses includes,

a transmission setting section configured to set whether transmission data is transmitted from the self-sided communication apparatus to the center apparatus according to the reference adjustment value of the self-sided communication apparatus stored in the storage section.

9. The communication system according to claim 6, wherein the reference adjustment value is greater as a total of the communication throughput of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses is greater.

10. A communication method comprising:

storing a communication throughput of each of a plurality of communication apparatuses, a reference value of the communication throughput and a reference adjustment value to adjust the reference value in a storage section;

calculating a reference value of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses based on an upper limit value, a current communication throughput, and the communication throughput and the reference adjustment value in the storage section when the current communication throughput between a self-sided communication apparatus and a center apparatus exceeds a self reference value, the upper limit value corresponding to a total communication throughput of the plurality of communication apparatuses;

updating the reference value in the storage section with the calculated reference value in the plurality of communication apparatuses;

a transmitter section configured to transmit the calculated reference value to an external communication apparatus; and

a receiver section configured to receive the calculated reference value transmitted from the external communication apparatus and update the reference value in the storage section with the calculated reference value.

11. The communication method according to claim 10, further comprising:

updating the reference value, the communication throughput and the reference adjustment value in the storage section with a received reference value, a received communication throughput and a received reference adjustment value from a communication apparatus included in the plurality of communication apparatus, when the current communication throughput exceeds the self reference value; and

calculating the reference value of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses based on the updated communication throughput and the updated reference adjustment value.

12. The communication method according to claim 10, further comprising:

setting whether transmission data is transmitted from the self-sided communication apparatus to the center apparatus according to the reference adjustment value of the self-sided communication apparatus stored in the storage section.

13. The communication method according to claim 10, wherein the reference adjustment value is greater as a total of the communication throughput of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses is greater.