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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
May. 11, 2018
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Oshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0894 (2013.01); H04L 43/0858 (2013.01);
Abstract
In order to enable to reduce a communication load while maintaining estimation accuracy of available bandwidth estimation being high, a transmission method includes: transmitting estimation packets, a packet size of each of which successively increases, to an available bandwidth estimation device at equal intervals, and, when receiving a signal indicating that a reception interval between the estimation packets at the available bandwidth estimation device starts to increase, stopping the transmission of the estimation packets.