Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Yukio Tsukishima

Toru Mano

Junki Ichikawa

Tetsuo Takahashi

Atsushi Watanabe

Tomoya Hibi

Akira Hirano

Yoshiaki Sone

Hideki Nishizawa

Naohide Nagatsu

Kiwami Inoue

Kenji Shimizu

Atsushi Taniguchi

Hidehiko Takara

Takayuki Kobayashi

Takafumi Tanaka

Kazushige Yonenaga

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Yasuhiro Mochida

Masahiko Jinno

Toshihide Yoshimatsu

Akihiro Kadohata

Hitoshi Masutani

Daisuke Shirai

Wataru Imajyuku

Yasutaka Okazaki

Kozicki Bartlomiej

Kazuhisa Yamada

This communication system comprises a plurality of computersthat each comprise: an optical transport path control unitthat adjusts the number of optical transport paths between the computer itself and a connection target computer and that sets the adjusted number of optical transport paths; a remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication unitthat, in accordance with the number of optical transport pathsannounced from the optical transport path control unit, chunks data that is to be transferred to the connection target computer; and an RDMA control unitthat sets RDMA communication paths the number of which is the same as the number of the optical transport pathspursuant to an instruction from the RDMA communication unit

Communication system, computing machine, communication method and program

The communication apparatus includes: a processing device that processes communication data to be transmitted to and received from a partner apparatus; a transmission unit that transmits the communication data to the partner apparatus; an internal state measurement unit that measures a state related to transmission of the communication data between the processing device and the transmission unit and a determination unit that determines a communication mode in communication with the partner apparatus from the state. The transmission unit transmits the communication data to the partner apparatus in the determined communication mode.

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

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data communication system, a computing apparatus, a data communication method, and a program, which are capable of highly reliable data transfer with low latency between computing apparatuses. The present disclosure achieves a highly reliable communication path by directly connecting computing apparatuses via an optical path and transmitting data through the optical path. Further, the present disclosure uses the optical path to achieve RDAM over wavelength transmission in which existing RDMA-enabled protocol stacks such as InfiniBand and TCP/IP/Ether are eliminated. The present disclosure eliminates the protocol stacks, enabling transfer with lower latency than in a case of 'simply performing RDMA transmission over the wavelength path'.

Data communication system, computer, data communication method, and program

An object of the present disclosure is to make it possible to measure an IP flow corresponding to time-varying, high-speed traffic. The present disclosure is a device that monitors traffic in a network, the device comprising a memory that records, for each flow in the network, metadata and flow information to be used in measurement, wherein a traffic state is forecasted using a packet flowing in the network; and a recording area for the metadata and the flow information in the memory is set based on the forecasted traffic state.

Traffic monitoring device, method and program

An object is to provide a multipoint distribution system, a distribution method, a management apparatus, and a program which determine whether or not to switch between a current-use system and a backup system in consideration of the importance levels of distribution destinations. The multipoint distribution system according to the present invention includes a distribution destination system importance level database that stores the importance levels of distribution destinations. When a distribution destination not able to communicate with a current-use video distribution system is detected, the multipoint distribution system performs switching from the current-use video distribution system to a backup video distribution system only upon determining that the distribution destination is important by referring to the distribution destination system importance level database.

Multipoint distribution system, distribution method, management device and program

A wavelength path reallocation method in a path reallocation apparatus for reallocating a wavelength path set in a communication network, including: a wavelength path designing step in which a wavelength path designing unit designs a reallocation destination wavelength path by performing calculation such that the number of use frequency regions in the communication network becomes smaller than a corresponding value before reallocation; and a wavelength path setting step in which a wavelength path setting unit changes a reallocation target wavelength path to the reallocation destination wavelength path by using free wavelength.

Wavelength path reallocation method and upper layer path reallocation method

A bandwidth variable communication apparatus includes: a route exchange unit including a route exchange function for switching an output port of a stream signal of one or more wavelengths input from an input port based on both or a part of wavelength and time, and including a bandwidth change function for changing passable frequency bandwidth in a section from the input port to the output port through which the stream signal passes; and a control unit including a control information transmit-receive function for transmitting and receiving control information for both or a part of the route exchange function and the bandwidth change function of the route exchange unit, and including a control function for controlling the route exchange unit based on the control information. All or a part of the input ports and the output ports are connected to other communication apparatuses via transmission routes.

Bandwidth variable communication apparatus and bandwidth variable communication method

When a failure occurs on a path set between two packet communication devices, a protection path is set and the communication is recovered without having the effect of the path failure on devices other than the two packet communication devices. When a packet communication device detects a failure in a transmission line or a path between the device itself and a correspondent packet communication device to restore the communication, at least one of a topology modification notice pending step, in which the fact that the connection with the correspondent packet communication device being disconnected is not reported to the packet communication devices other than the correspondent packet communication device for a prescribed time, and a path restoration step, in which path setting signaling is performed to trigger cooperation of the path communication device and the correspondent packet communication device to set the protection path within the prescribed time, is executed together with a virtual interface setting modification step in which a virtual interface used for the path disconnected by the failure is set to the protection path.

Method for relieving failure, and packet communication device

In a communication system, including a plurality of communication node apparatuses, for establishing a path for communication by exchanging a message among the plurality of communication node apparatuses, before establishing a path, an identifier of a path for which reuse of resources of the path to be established is permitted or inhibited is determined, and the determined identification information is included in a control message so that the path is established. A communication node apparatus in which the path has been established determines availability of reuse of resources the path based on the identification information in the control message. When an event such as failure occurrence, occurrence of resource reuse or dissolution of resource reuse occurs, the communication node apparatus executes path priority change processing, so that priority can be changed such that resource reuse can be performed most efficiently.

Communication node apparatus, communication system, and path resource assignment method

A capacity variable link apparatus including a main signal system and a control signal system is provided. The main signal system includes: an upper layer signal accommodation part; a lower layer path termination part; and a signal switching part for dividing the upper layer signal to lower layer signals in a lower layer path group having a capacity that is determined according to an amount of traffic of the upper layer signal. The control system includes: a traffic amount measuring part for measuring the amount of traffic of the upper layer and for determining whether the capacity of the lower layer path group is to be increased or decreased according to the amount; and a signal switching management part for controlling the signal switching part according to the result of the determination.

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Yukio Tsukishima