Radio terminal equipment

• US 7,457,273 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2004
• Issued: 11/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakanishi, Tomonori, Etani, Tameyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Orgad; Edan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee; Andrew C
• Application Number:
  US11/025,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20050111422A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,427 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/389, 370/252, 370/345, 370/392, 370/331, 370/447, 370/461, 370/462, 370/312, 370/337, 370/335, 370/94.1, 709/238, 709/241
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/30 for proactive routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A radio terminal equipment includes a route supervision processing section for registering, for each destination address, an address of a radio-relay terminal equipment, which relays datagrams destined for the destination address, into a routing table in accordance with a predetermined dynamic routing protocol, a first transmission processing section for transmitting a datagram to a radio-relay terminal equipment corresponding to the destination address of the datagram in accordance with the routing table, a datagram supervision processing section for receiving the datagram transmitted by the radio-relay terminal equipment corresponding to the destination address of the datagram transmitted by the first transmission section to supervise whether or not the datagram has been relayed, and a second transmission processing section for transmitting, where the received datagram is to be relayed by the terminal equipment itself, the datagram to the radio terminal equipment corresponding to the destination address of the datagram in accordance with the routing table.

Claims

1. A radio terminal equipment, comprising:

a route supervision processing section for registering, for each destination address, an address of a radio-relay terminal equipment, which relays datagrams destined for the destination address, into a routing table in accordance with a predetermined dynamic routing protocol;

a first transmission processing section for transmitting a datagram to a radio-relay terminal equipment corresponding to the destination address of the datagram in accordance with said routing table;

a datagram supervision processing section for receiving a first datagram transmitted by another radio terminal equipment and checking whether a source address of the first datagram is an address of the radio terminal equipment, and judging whether a second data transmitted by the radio terminal equipment having a destination address that is the same as the destination address of the first datagram has been relayed by the other radio terminal equipment when the source address of the first data rain is the address of the radio terminal equipment; and

a second transmission processing section for transmitting, where a received third datagram is to be relayed by said radio terminal equipment itself, the third datagram to the radio terminal equipment corresponding to the destination address of the third datagram in accordance with said routing table.

2. The radio terminal equipment according to claim 1, wherein, when it is discriminated that the datagram has not been relayed, said first transmission processing section stores a datagram whose destination address is same as that of the datagram into a storage section and refers to said routing table such that, when the address of the radio-relay terminal equipment with regard to the destination address of the datagram is updated, datagrams stored in said storage section are transmitted in order of storage times.

3. The radio terminal equipment according to claim 1, wherein said datagram supervision processing section receives a datagram transmitted from the radio-relay terminal equipment to discriminate whether or not the radio-relay terminal equipment is in a congested state with a datagram other than the relayed datagram of the datagram transmitted from said radio terminal equipment itself.

4. The radio terminal equipment according to claim 1, wherein, when it is discriminated that the datagram has not been relayed, said first transmission processing section stores a destination address set in a predetermined area of a header of a datagram whose destination address is same as that of the datagram into another area and updates the destination address in the predetermined area to a broadcast address and then transmits the datagram.

5. The radio terminal equipment according to claim 3, wherein, when it is discriminated that the radio-relay terminal equipment corresponding to the destination address of the datagram is in a congestion state, said first transmission processing section stores a destination address set in a predetermined area of a header of the datagram into another area and updates the destination address in the predetermined area to a broadcast address and then transmits the datagram.

6. The radio terminal equipment according to claim 4, wherein, where the broadcast address is set in the header of the datagram and the destination address is accommodated in the different area, said second transmission processing section sets the destination address to the predetermined area and transmit the datagram.

7. The radio terminal equipment according to claim 1, wherein said radio terminal equipment comprises a datagram supervision table for storing supervision information including a transmission source address, a destination address, and a counter, and said first transmission section increments, when a datagram is to be transmitted, the counter corresponding to a transmission source address and a destination address of the datagram and discriminates, if the counter exceeds a threshold value, that a datagram whose transmission source address and destination address are same as those of the datagram has not been relayed, and said datagram supervision section resets the counter of the supervision information corresponding to the destination address and the transmission source address of the received datagram.

8. The radio terminal equipment according to claim 6, wherein, when a relayed datagram of the datagram to which the broadcast address is set is received, said route management section updates the address of the radio-relay terminal equipment corresponding to the transmission source address and the destination address of the relayed datagram.

9. A radio terminal equipment according to claim 1, wherein the datagram contains an extended header to be set with an address of the radio terminal equipment transmitting the datagram, and the radio terminal equipment sets the address of the radio terminal equipment to the extended header of the datagram, and transmits the datagram, said datagram supervision processing section judging that the second datagram was relayed by a radio terminal equipment having an address the same as the address set in the extended header of the first datagram.