Nec Corporation

Takayuki Hama

Junichi Yamato

Yuichi Ishikawa

Hideyuki Shimonishi

Yuki Tanaka

Masanori Takashima

Shuji Ishii

Ichiro Yamaguchi

Takeharu Yasuda

Satoshi Uchida

Masahiro Jibiki

Yasunobu Chiba

Masashi Numata

Satoshi Hieda

A service providing system includes a control server and a physical resource(s) controlled by the control server. The control server has a virtual device providing unit(s) that provides at least one virtual object for controlling a physical resource(s), and a virtual infrastructure providing unit(s) that can provide, as a virtual object(s), a virtual infrastructure(s) configured using at least one virtual object provided by the virtual device providing unit(s), wherein the virtual infrastructure providing unit(s) can configure a virtual infrastructure(s) using the virtual object(s) provided by the virtual infrastructure providing unit(s), and can provide the virtual infrastructure(s) as a virtual object(s).

Control server, service providing system, and method of providing a virtual infrastructure

A communication system comprises control devices, and forwarding nodes each includes packet processing unit that performs processing of a received packet based on a processing rule set in advance or received from control device associated with the node. First control device among the control devices, in response to a predetermined trigger, refers to correspondence between forwarding nodes and control devices, and transmits, among forwarding path information, at least forwarding path information that includes a forwarding node associated with the first control device, to second control device associated with a forwarding node that is not associated with first control device, among forwarding nodes on a forwarding path of the received packet. Second control device generates and sends the processing rule to a forwarding node on the forwarding path, among forwarding nodes associated with the second control device, based on the forwarding path information.

Communication system, control device, processing rule setting method, packet transmission method, and program

Communication allowance determination means determines, using information of a packet received by a packet relay unit and based on a policy which is information associating a match condition with communicability information, whether to allow or not to allow communication to a destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition, the match condition being information identifying the packet, and the communicability information indicating whether to allow or not to allow the communication to the destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition. Rule setting means sets, at least in the packet relay unit receiving the packet, a rule of executing a process for suppressing forwarding of the packet to the destination unit, on condition that the communication allowance determination means determines not to allow the communication to the destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition.

Relay control unit, relay control system, relay control method, and relay control program

A communication system includes a plurality of nodes each including a packet processor that processes a packet in accordance with a packet handling operation(s) when the packet is received, the packet handling operation(s) correlating a processing to be applied to the packet with a matching rule that identifies the packet to which the processing is to be applied, and a control device that calculates a packet forwarding path in response to a request to set the packet handling operation from any one of the nodes; the control device setting a plurality of the packet handling operations that implement the packet forwarding path for the node(s) on the packet forwarding path and recording the packet handling operations in correlation with one another, the control device inquiring at the node(s) on the packet forwarding path about a setting state(s) of the packet handling operation(s).

Communication system, control device, node, processing rule setting method and program

A communication system includes a plurality of nodes and a control device. Each node includes a packet processor that processes a packet in accordance with a processing rule when the packet is received. The processing rule correlates the processing applied to the packet with a matching rule that identifies the packet the processing is to be applied to. The control device calculates a packet forwarding path in response to a request for setting processing rules from any node, sets processing rules that implement the packet forwarding path on the node on the packet forwarding path and records the processing rules in a manner coordinated with one another. The control device inquires at the node on the packet forwarding path about state of setting of processing rule and, upon detecting failure in the processing rule set in at least one node, executes rollback operation on the correlated processing rules set in other node.

When calculating a forwarding path for a packet, a control apparatus determines a second node on the exit side of the packet forwarding path and an output port thereof. Next, the control apparatus sets in a second node located upstream of the first node on the packet forwarding path a packet handling operation for writing flow identification information associated with the output port in a packet header field not to be referred to when the first node forwards the packet and rewriting address information in the packet header such that the packet arrives at the second node on the exit side, and then causing the packet to be forwarded. A packet handling operation for causing the packet with the flow identification information given thereto to be transmitted from the port associated with the flow identification information is set in the second node on the exit side.

Communication system, control apparatus, communication method, and program

A communication system includes a plurality of terminals and a server that relays packet data transmitted and received between a first terminal and a second terminal among the plurality of terminals. The server includes a connection establishment message processing unit configured to transmit a first SYN ACK message that is a response message to a first SYN message transmitted from the first terminal for establishing a TCP connection upon receiving the first SYN message from the first terminal, and an option information notifying unit configured to transmit a first TCP option information notifying message that includes first TCP option information included in the first SYN message from the first terminal and first communication destination information to indicate the second terminal as a destination of communication. The first terminal recognizes the second terminal as the destination of communication and notifies the second terminal of the first TCP option information included in the first TCP option information notifying message, upon receiving the first TCP option information notifying message from the option information notifying unit.

Communication system, server, terminal, packet data transferring method, and program therefor

A communication quality monitoring device is provided which determines communication quality deterioration by variation of a transmission buffer length in session control irrespectively of generation/non-generation of a data loss. A packet transmission and quality monitoring device-which detects deterioration in communication quality based on a buffer length of a session control protocol includes a threshold value calculating unit-which calculates a threshold value for the determination of deterioration in communication quality according to a parameter related to congestion detection of the session control protocol, and a deterioration determining unit-which determines deterioration in communication quality by comparing the threshold value and the buffer length.

Communication quality monitoring device, communication system, communication quality monitoring method and program thereof

A session relay device which can reliably send a data packet from a source to a destination without the need for reconfiguring and dividing a segment is supplied. Session relay device, adapted to be disposed between terminals for transmitting and receiving data as packets to which sequence numbers representative of the order of segments to be transmitted are assigned, includes session relay section-that relays data transmitted as packets between a first session opened between session relay deviceand a terminal on a transmission side and a second session opened between session relay deviceand a terminal on a reception side. Session relay section-receives the retransmitted segment from a terminal on the transmission side, updates a maximum segment size of the second session with the segment size of the retransmitted segment, and transmits the retransmitted segment to a terminal on the reception side.

Session relay device and session relay method

A server that relays packet data transmitted and received between a first terminal and a second terminal among plurality of terminals, includes a transfer table storing unit configured to store a transfer table in which a connection address pair, includes a first connection address and a second connection address, is registered, and a connection establishment message processing unit configured to transmit a SYN ACK message as a response message to a SYN message, upon receiving the SYN message, for establishing a TCP connection from each of the terminals. The first connection address is used to connect the server and the first terminal and the second connection address is used to connect the server and the second terminal.

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Takayuki Hama