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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuya Kikuzuki, Sodegaura, JP;
Shuhei Ohsako, Itoshima, JP;
FUJITSU LIMITED, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for assigning time slots refers to a hierarchical structure when a predetermined number of time slots in one of a plurality of communication cycles is assigned to a communication apparatus, identifies an associated frame whose use status is to be changed to used by the assignment of the predetermined number of time slots for a group managed in a layer corresponding to the requested communication cycle, and makes determination to assign a frame belonging to a group in which a number of time slots, in the associated frame, whose use status is changed to used is smaller, to the communication apparatus.