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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2017
Ntt Communications Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Wenyu Shen, Yokohama, JP;
Ryu Kanishima, Koutou-ku, JP;
Kenji Arai, Sumida-ku, JP;
Takeo Saga, Adachi-ku, JP;
Takayuki Kamei, Funabashi, JP;
NTT Communications Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a network control device for performing control of a system including a plurality of terminals and including a plurality of gateway devices that are coupled to a predetermined network, the network control device including a selection unit that selects a first gateway device used by a first terminal based on a quality between the first terminal and the plurality of gateway devices, a tunnel establishing unit that connects between the first terminal and each of other terminals that uses the first gateway device via a tunnel, and a path control unit that performs path control, such that, when a second gateway device used by a second terminal that is a communication destination of the first terminal is same as the first gateway device, traffic from the first terminal to the second terminal is routed through a tunnel between the first terminal and the second terminal, and when the second gateway device is different from the first gateway device, traffic from the first terminal to the second terminal is routed through the predetermined network.