Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yasuto Kanayama

Kazunori Washio

Satoshi Udou

Teruaki Ito

Tomoyuki Fujita

A distance measurement device includes a transceiving unit that, in a distance measurement process between the distance measurement device and nodes, transmits a command to the nodes, and receives a response as a response to the command; and a distance measurement control unit that instructs the transceiving unit to transmit the command when the distance measurement process starts, measures a period of time until the response is received after the command is transmitted, and calculates a distances between the distance measurement device and the nodes on the basis of the measured period of time. The distance measurement control unit determines the number of repetitions for the distance measurement process until the distance is calculated after the command is transmitted on the basis of the calculated distance.

Distance measurement device and distance measurement method

A communication apparatus includes a time-stamp generating unit for generating a time stamp during transmission or reception of a PDU transmitted and received, a transmission-data storing unit, a reception-data storing unit, a frame processing unit configured to generate a PDU including a data refresh instruction to the other node, periodical transmission data in the transmission-data storing unit, and a frame transmission time acquired from the time-stamp generating unit and store, upon receiving a PDU from the other node, periodical transmission data included in the PDU in the reception-data storing unit, and a one-way-delay detecting unit for determining, upon receiving the PDU, according to whether a next PDU has been received within a first delay allowable time after the last PDU was received, or whether a transmission time of the PDU is within a second delay allowable time, presence or absence of occurrence of a delay of a PDU.

Communication apparatus and delay detecting method

A transmitting apparatus included in a communication system that performs message communication using an error detection code with a receiving apparatus, the transmitting apparatus includes a transmission interval determining means that, based on a parameter related to a transmission error non-detection probability of a message per time, a data length of the message, and a code length of the error detection code used for the message, determines a transmission interval for transmitting the message, so that the transmission error non-detection probability of the message satisfies a condition related to a transmission error non-detection probability included in the parameter, wherein the message is transmitted to the receiving apparatus, based on the transmission interval determined by the transmission interval determining means.

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Nagoya, Japan

Yasuto Kanayama