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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yuichiro Hei, Fujimino, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A communication method in which a first communication device that is a transmission source of data, a second communication device that is a destination of the data, and one or more relay devices that relay the data transmit and receive the data using Segment Routing, wherein the relay device is configured to, when relaying the data, detect whether congestion occurs in the relay device, and when congestion occurs, set a first flag indicating the occurrence of congestion in a segment ID corresponding the relay device out of a plurality of segment IDs contained in a routing header of the data, and the second communication device configured to, when there is a segment ID in which the first flag is set in a routing header of received data, determine that congestion occurs in the relay device corresponding to the segment ID.