HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20140086588A1
• Filed: 09/24/2013
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Original Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Inventors: KAWANISHI, Tetsuya, KANNO, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 9,231,638 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 398/115
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3827 Portable transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/118 specially adapted for satellite communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25 Arrangements specific to fibre transmission

Abstract

A high-speed communication control system is provided to resolve the problem of transmission delay, while a communication capacity is ensured.

A communication system includes a transmission station 13 and a reception station 15. A communication system 17 includes an optical fiber line 19 and a wireless path 21 that connect the transmission station 13 to the reception station 15 so that information is transmitted and received. The transmission station 13 includes a communication control unit 11 that controls a communication path. The reception station 15 is able to communicate with the transmission station 13. The communication control unit 11 controls whether the information is transmitted to the reception station 15 via one of the optical fiber line 19 and the wireless path 21.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a transmission station that includes a communication control unit controlling a communication path;

a reception station that is able to communicate with the transmission station;

an optical fiber line that connects the transmission station to the reception station so that information is able to be transmitted and received; and

a wireless path that connects the transmission station to the reception station so that information is able to be transmitted and received,

wherein the communication control unit controls whether the information is transmitted to the reception station via one of the optical fiber line and the wireless path.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the wireless path includes one or both of a low earth orbit satellite and an ionosphere propagation path.

3. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the wireless path includes a low earth orbit satellite, and

wherein on the assumption that h [m] is an altitude of the low earth orbit satellite from an earth'"'"'s surface,

L [m] is a propagation distance of the optical fiber line between the transmission station and the reception station, and

R_e [m] is an average radius of the earth,

a refractive index n of the optical fiber satisfies a following relation equation;

4. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the communication control unit includes

an input class determination unit that determines a kind of information input to the transmission station, and

a path storage unit that stores whether the information is transmitted to the reception station via one of the optical fiber line and the wireless path according to the kind of information input to the input class determination unit.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the communication control unit further includes

a threshold value storage unit that stores a threshold value,

a threshold value determination unit that determines whether a numerical value input to the transmission station exceeds the threshold value, and

a transaction interruption signal generation unit that generates a transaction interruption signal when the threshold value determination unit determines that the numerical value input to the transmission station exceeds the threshold value,

wherein the communication control unit performs control that transmitting the transaction interruption signal to the reception station via the wireless path when the transaction interruption signal is generated by the transaction interruption signal generation unit.