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Transmission device, transmission method and computer program

  • US 9,167,477 B2
  • Filed: 04/13/2011
  • Issued: 10/20/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A transmission device, comprising:

  • a computing device, which includes processing device and a memory, the memory having stored therein computer code configured to cause the computing device, upon execution of the computer code by the processing device, to operate as;

    a reception buffer which temporarily accumulates received transmission unit data;

    a signal generation section which, upon a determination that an amount of accumulation in the reception buffer has exceeded a predetermined upper-limit threshold value, generates a control signal that instructs an other transmission device to stop transmission of transmission unit data by designating, for only traffic of the transmission unit data for which the transmission device serves as an end point of a reception side among a plurality of pieces of traffic accommodated in a physical link, all transmission devices serving as end points of a transmission side in the traffic as transmission destinations, and does not instruct an intermediate transmission device disposed between the transmission device and the other transmission device to stop transmission; and

    a transmission section which transmits the control signal to the other transmission device.

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