Nec Corporation

Masaya Yamagata

Masayuki Nakae

Hideyuki Shimonishi

Kentaro Sonoda

Yoichiro Morita

Takayuki Sasaki

Yoichi Hatano

Takeo Ohno

Yasuhiro Mizukoshi

Yuki Ashino

Toshio Koide

A visualization device is communicable with one or a plurality of host servers for hosting a virtual system, and includes an information acquisition unit for collecting configuration information on the virtual system and the host server, a storage unit for storing the configuration information therein, and a drawing unit for expressing a virtual machine and a virtual network configuring the virtual system with different axes based on the configuration information stored in the storage unit, expressing a connection relationship between a virtual machine and a virtual network by linking the lines extending from the respective axes, and grouping virtual machines in units of server on which the virtual machines operate thereby to generate drawing information for expressing the configuration of the virtual system and the host server.

Visualization system and visualization method

A communication system includes: a control apparatus setting control information in a forwarding node(s); a forwarding node(s); and an access control apparatus. The forwarding node(s) forwards packets by using first control information set by the control apparatus and second control information for forwarding packets that do not match a matching condition(s) in the first control information set by the control apparatus from a predetermined port of the forwarding node(s). The access control apparatus includes a determination unit determining whether to generate control information for the packets forwarded from the predetermined port of the forwarding node(s) and requesting the control apparatus to generate control information.

Communication system, access control apparatus, switch, network control method, and program

A communication system, includes: a node that requests a processing rule for processing a packet; and a control apparatus that notifies the node of the processing rule in response to the request. The control apparatus, upon being notified of change of a connection relationship between a communication apparatus to which a packet is addressed and the node, determines a forwarding path for a packet addressed to the communication apparatus and notifies the node of a processing rule for realizing the forwarding path.

Communication system, control apparatus, communication apparatus, communication control method, and program

A terminal communicating with a network including a forwarding device for forwarding a packet and a control device for controlling the forwarding device in accordance with a request from the forwarding device, includes a communication unit that receives a processing rule indicating that a packet for communicating with a first destination is changed so as to communicate with a second destination, from the control device, a storage unit that stores the received processing rule, and a processing unit that in a case of communicating with the network, changes a destination of a packet in accordance with a processing rule that corresponds to the packet by referring to the processing rule stored in the storage unit.

Terminal, control device, communication method, communication system, communication module, program, and information processing device

Visualization device, visualization system, and visualization method

A communication terminal comprises: first means that communicates with a network system that includes a forwarding apparatus forwarding a packet and a control apparatus informing the forwarding apparatus of a processing rule prescribing a packet processing method; second means that determines a processing operation to be executed by the network system from among packet processing operations to be executed by the communication terminal; and third means that informs the forwarding apparatus of a processing rule corresponding to the determined packet processing operation.

Communication terminal, method of communication and communication system

A route request mediation apparatus comprises a resource management unit that manages a resource of a network to be managed; a request receiving unit that receives a route request with an added service level condition from a user or another route request mediation apparatus; a negotiation status management unit that forwards the route request to a destination specified by the route request, and manages a negotiation status based on a response from the destination; an acceptance assessment unit that assesses whether or not to accept the route request by referring to the negotiation status managed by the negotiation status management unit and to the resource management unit; and a response sending unit that responds with an assessment result that indicates whether or not the route request is accepted to the request source of the route request.

Route request mediation apparatus, control apparatus, route request mediation method and program

A communication system includes: a forwarding node(s) in which a first packet handling operation(s) for processing incoming packets is set and which processes packets in accordance with the packet handling operation(s); a first control apparatus setting the first packet handling operation(s) in the forwarding node(s); a flow control node(s) arranged upstream of the forwarding node(s); and a second control apparatus setting a second packet handling operation(s) in the flow control node(s). The flow control node(s) intercepts forwarding of packets that do not satisfy a predetermined condition(s) to the forwarding node(s) in accordance with the second packet handling operation(s).

Communication system, control apparatus, and communication method

A terminal communicating via a network including a forwarding device(s) for forwarding a packet and a control device for controlling the forwarding device(s) in accordance with a request from the forwarding device, includes: a communication unit that receives a processing rule specifying a process of adding, to a packet, quality information related to communication quality with respect to the terminal, from the control device, a memory unit that stores the received processing rule, and a processing unit that in a case of communicating via the network, adds quality information to a packet in accordance with a processing rule that corresponds to the packet by referring to the processing rule stored in the memory unit.

A communication system includes a control device; a forwarding node that processes, in accordance with a processing rule set by control device, a packet transmitted from a user terminal; and a policy management device that manages communication policy and notifies the control device of communication policy that corresponds to a user for whom authentication has succeeded; a setting request transmission permitting unit that, based on notification from the policy management device, sets to a forwarding node that receives a packet from the user terminal a first processing rule causing the forwarding node to make a setting request of processing rule with regard to a packet transmitted from the user terminal; and a path control unit that determines path from user terminal to access destination and sets to forwarding node along the path the second processing rule that corresponds to the path.

Communication system, control device, policy management device, communication method, and program

A terminal communicating with a network including a forwarding device for forwarding a packet and a control device for controlling the forwarding device in accordance with a request from the forwarding device, includes: a communication unit that receives a processing rule specifying a method of processing the packet, which is determined by the control device, from the control device, a storage unit that stores the received processing rule, and a processing unit that in a case of communicating with the network, processes the packet in accordance with the processing rule that corresponds to the packet by referring to the processing rule stored in the storage unit.

A communication control apparatus controls communication between a first apparatus and a second apparatus connected to the first apparatus via a plurality of relay apparatuses. The communication control apparatus comprises: a communication path generation unit that refers to a control policy including access control and supplementary control that is other than the access control from the first apparatus to the second apparatus and refers to network configuration information about a network configuration among the first apparatus, the second apparatus, and the plurality of relay apparatuses and generates a communication path that matches the control policy from the first apparatus to the second apparatus and goes through at least one of the plurality of relay apparatuses; and a communication path control unit that instructs a relay apparatus(es) on the communication path among the plurality of relay apparatuses to execute the access control and the supplementary control included in the control policy.

Communication control apparatus, communication control method, and program

A communication system includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information for determining an isolation level to which a user terminal belongs, from the user terminal; an isolation level determination unit that determines an isolation level to which the user terminal belongs, based on the acquired information; an isolation level information storage unit that defines whether or not access is possible to respective access destinations for each isolation level; an access control unit that causes a forwarding node(s) to implement forwarding or dropping of a packet, in accordance with whether or not access is possible to the respective access destinations; and a forwarding node(s) that forwards a packet in accordance with control of the access control unit. Stepwise access control is realized using isolation levels.

Communication system, control device, communication method, and program

A terminal communicating with a network including a forwarding device(s) for forwarding a packet and a control device for controlling the forwarding device(s) in accordance with a request from the forwarding device, includes: a communication unit that receives a processing rule indicating that a packet for communicating with a first destination is changed so as to communicate with a second destination, from the control device; a storage unit that stores the received processing rule, and a processing unit that in a case of communicating with the network, changes a destination of a packet in accordance with a processing rule that corresponds to the packet by referring to the processing rule stored in the storage unit.

The present invention implements detailed access control according to access rights granted to users, by a simple configuration. A communication system includes: a plurality of forwarding nodes that process a received packet in accordance with a processing rule (packet handling operation) associating a matching rule for identifying a flow and processing content to be applied to a packet that conforms with the matching rule; a policy management apparatus provided with an access control policy storage unit that associates roles assigned to users and access rights set for each role, the policy management apparatus providing information related to access rights associated with a role of a user who is successfully authenticated, to a control apparatus; and the control apparatus that creates a path between a terminal of the user who is successfully authenticated and a resource that the user can access, based on information related to access rights received from the policy management apparatus, and sets a processing rule in a forwarding node in the path in question.

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Masaya Yamagata