Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Daisuke Takita

Yoshifumi Hotta

Ryuma Matsushita

Makoto Kubomi

A reception unit () receives an addition requesting frame for requesting addition of a new flow. A first search unit () performs, using a network-information database (), a first search for searching for a schedule and a path assignable to the new flow without the schedule and the path of each existing flow being changed, when the addition requesting frame is received. A second search unit () performs a second search for changing the schedule and the path of each existing flow and searching for the schedule and the path assignable to the new flow, using the network-information database, when the schedule and the path assignable to the new flow have not been found by the first search. A response unit () transmits an addition responding frame.

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Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Takita