Recording medium having communication program recorded therein, relay node and communication method

• US 9,049,048 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2010
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hyoudou, Kazuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Ian N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huynh, Dung B
• Application Number:
  US12/723,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20100232319A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,905 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/4641 Virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN] LAN interconnection over a bridge based backbone H04L12/462; encapsulation techniques H04L12/4633; routing of packets H04L45/00; packet switches H04L49/00; virtual private networks for security H04L63/0272
• 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: H04L 45/02 Topology update or discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/22 Traffic shaping

Abstract

A recording medium, relay node and method are provided. The recording medium having recorded therein a communication program causing non-real time communication to be executed by first and second node groups in a network for conducting real time communication between the nodes through relay devices connecting the first and second node groups. The communication program causing a computer of a local node to execute causing a local node selected from the first node group to set a path leading from the local node to another node selected from the second node group, causing the local node to receive data on the non-real time communication from the other nodes of the first node group than the local node to the other nodes of the second node group than the another node; and transferring from the local node to the another node, the data received, using the path set in the setting.

Claims

1. A non-transitory recording medium having recorded therein a communication program causing non-real time communication to be executed by first and second node groups in a network for conducting real time communication between the nodes, the communication program causing at least one computer to execute a method comprising:

causing a local node selected from the first node group to set a path leading from the local node to another node selected from the second node group;

causing the local node to receive non-real time data on the non-real time communication from other nodes of the first node group than the local node to the second node group; and

transferring, from the local node to the other node through a communication path between a first relay device coupled to the first node group and a second relay device coupled to the second node group, the non-real time data received from the other nodes, using the path,

wherein real time data on the real time communication from the other nodes of the first node group is transferred to the second node group with the non-real time data using the communication path and without passing through the local node, and

the local node is caused to control an amount of the non-real time data on the non-real time communication transferred through the communication path, so as to reduce conflict with the real time data on the real time communication on the communication path.

2. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the communication program causes the computer of the local node to further execute:

detecting a period starting time point of the real time communication executed periodically in the network; and

transferring from the local node to the other node, the data on the non-real time communication at a time point different from the period starting time point of the real time communication detected by the detecting.

3. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the communication program stored in the recording medium causes the computer of the local node to further execute:

causing the local node to calculate data flow rate assigned to the set path based on transmission capacity of the network;

causing the local node to perform assignment of the data flow rate calculated to the path; and

causing the local node to transmit a result of the assignment to the other node.

4. The recording medium according to claim 3, wherein the data flow rate assigned to the set path is calculated based on the data flow rate of the non-real time data transferred from the other node to the local node.

5. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the communication program stored in the recording medium causes the computer of the local node to further execute:

causing the local node to receive, from the other node, the data on the non-real time communication from the other nodes of the second node group than the other node to the other nodes of the first node group than the local node; and

causing the local node to transfer the data received to the other nodes of the first node group than the local node.

6. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the communication program stored in the recording medium causes the computer of the local node to further execute a process in which:

an address for uniquely specifying the node included in the network is set in the data on the real time communication, and an address for uniquely specifying the node included in each node group is set in the data on the non-real time communication.

7. A communication method for causing non-real time communication to be carried out by nodes in a network for conducting real time communication between the nodes, comprising:

setting a path leading from a local node selected from the first node group to another node selected from the second node group;

receiving non-real time data on the non-real time communication from the other nodes of the first node group than the local node to the second node group;

transferring the non-real time data received from the other nodes to the other node through the path set, through a communication path between a first relay device coupled to a first node group and a second relay device coupled to a second node group;

transferring, by the local node, real time data on the real time communication from the other nodes of the first node group to the second node group with the non-real time data using the communication path and without passing through the local node, and

controlling by the local node an amount of the non-real time data transferred through the communication path, so as to reduce conflict with the real time data on the real time communication on the communication path.