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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2014
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ippei Akiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Mizukoshi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication system, a communication apparatus, a control method, and a control apparatus are provided that make it possible to flexibly increase/decrease a U-plane processing function of a communication apparatus. A communication system in which a logical path () is set up in a network to perform communication, comprises: a control plane () for the logical path; and a control apparatus () that, in response to a request from the control plane, selects from communication equipment resources a communication equipment () to perform user-plane processing in connection with data transmission through the logical path, and sets an operation rule related to the user-plane processing in the selected communication equipment.