Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Hideaki Iwata

Hideo Tsuchiya

Akihiro Kimura

Shunsuke Homma

Katsuma Miyamoto

Akihiro Okada

Kazuhiro Matsuo

Hidetaka Nishihara

Hiroki Iwahashi

Koji Sugisono

Kaori Kurita

Michihiro Aoki

A function management device that manages, in a communication system including a plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment and a server capable of providing a function to the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment, the function provided by the server, and includes a resource management unit configured to collect resource information from the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment, a network management unit configured to collect, from the server, network band information of each of the functions, the network band being between the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment and the server, and a function processing unit configured to activate a virtual machine on one of the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment on the basis of the resource information and the network band information to cause a first function selected on the basis of a band occupancy ratio from among the functions provided by the server to be executed.

Function management apparatus, function management method and communication system

A communication apparatus connected to a virtual apparatus having an address dispensing function via an access network is provided, wherein the communication apparatus includes a communication confirmation unit configured to perform a communication confirmation between the virtual apparatus and the communication apparatus; and an address dispensing unit configured to dispense an address to a user terminal under control of the communication apparatus when communication between the virtual apparatus and the communication apparatus is not able to be confirmed by the communication confirmation unit, and the address dispensing unit causes the user terminal to forcibly release the address when the communication between the virtual apparatus and the communication apparatus is able to be confirmed by the communication confirmation unit.

Communication apparatus, communication method and program

A policy conflict system includes a determining unit that determines, according to an instruction for application of a second polity from a second network provider to a first network provider that performs policy control based on a set of first policies, presence or absence of a third policy conflicting with the second policy, a calculating unit that, when the determining unit determines that the third policy is present, concerning each of the second policy and the third policy, calculates priority levels different from each other referring to a storing unit storing information indicating a target that should be prioritized concerning an item relating to a policy, and an imparting unit that imparts the priority levels calculated by the calculating unit to each of the second policy and the third policy. Consequently, the policy conflict resolution system enables a conflict between policies to be resolved.

Policy conflict resolving system and policy conflict resolving method

A policy conflict detection system includes a determination unit configured to determine, in response to an instruction to apply to a first network operator which performs policy control based on a set of first policies, a second policy from a second network operator, whether a third policy, which matches the second policy in terms of a priority, an application period, a control target, and a control condition and which has a control content exclusive of that of the second policy is present among the first policies, thereby enabling detection of conflict of the policies.

Policy conflict detection system and policy conflict detection method

A load distribution system has: determination means for determining, upon an input port receiving a packet, a flow attribute indicating whether a flow configured by the packet is a flow that tends to include many long packets or a flow that tends to include many short packets; and output means for outputting the packet to a packet transfer device in a load state indicating that a load applied by the flow of the flow attribute is low, of a plurality of packet transfer devices, in accordance with the flow attribute determined by the determination means.

Load distribution system and load distribution method

A path calculation order determining method executed by a calculating apparatus for calculating a shortest path between a node pair in a network, using information on calculated shortest paths between other node pairs, the method including: a step storing calculated shortest path group information on shortest path groups each including calculated shortest paths from a starting node to one or more terminating nodes except the starting node, and topology information of the network, in a memory medium; and a calculation step of calculating shortest paths, starting from its starting node other than the starting node on the calculated shortest paths and having the most nodes that are located downstream therefrom, and terminating at nodes other than its starting node, using the calculated shortest path group information or the topology information for a path not included in the calculated shortest path group.

Path calculation order deciding method, program and calculating apparatus

A calculating apparatus calculates a shortest path connecting two nodes of a network. A shortest-path group, which is a set of shortest paths having node Y as their starting points, can be calculated at once by having calculated a shortest path having node Y as its starting point for each of other nodes. When the shortest-path group having node Y as the starting point is calculated and further if a group of shortest paths having node X as their starting points is stored beforehand in a storing unit, then path portions, which belong to the group of shortest paths having node X as the starting points and further which are paths extending from node Y to the nodes located downstream from node Y, are utilized as part of a result of calculation of the shortest path group having node Y as the starting point.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hideaki Iwata