Communication Equipment

• US 20090080379A1
• Filed: 09/04/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Takashima, Mitsuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,208,432 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

Communication equipment that allocates a communication resource region which is used for communication with equipment of a communicating party performs scheduling satisfactorily. A data classification unit classifies data, which is an object of communication in communication with equipment of a communicating party, into small-volume RTD, large-volume RTD, or nRTD. Based on the result of the classification, a scheduling unit allocates a communication resource region under a first condition that the RTD should have priority over the nRTD, a second condition that the small-volume RTD should have priority over the large-volume RTD, a third condition that a previously used communication resource region should be, if possible, allocated to the small-volume RTD, and a fourth condition that the large-volume RTD and nRTD should be allocated with priority given to equipment of a communicating party for which high communication quality is ensured. A communication unit performs communication with the equipment of the communicating party according to the result of the scheduling.

Claims

1. Communication equipment for allocating a communication resource region which is used for communication with equipment of a communicating party, comprising:

a data classification means that classifies data, which is an object of communication in communication with the equipment of the communicating party, into small-volume real-time data (RTD), large-volume RTD, or non-real-time data (nRTD);

a scheduling means that based on the result of the classification by the data classification means, allocates the communication resource region, which is used for communication with the equipment of the communicating party, under a first condition that the RTD should have priority over the nRTD, a second condition that the small-volume RTD should have priority over the large-volume RTD, a third condition that a previously used communication resource region should be, if possible, allocated to the small-volume RTD, and a fourth condition that the large-volume RTD and nRTD should be allocated with priority given to equipment of a communicating party for which high communication quality is ensured; and

a communication means that performs communication with the equipment of the communicating party according to the result of the scheduling by the scheduling means.