Patent ID: 11917454
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. A base station connected with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station comprising:
a plurality of wireless communications units configured to be able to select a plurality of different transmission rates and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations;
a collection unit configured to collect information about a transmission rate and multicast transmission frequency from each of the terminal stations;
a policy calculation unit configured to calculate a setting policy for setting a unicast transmission rate and a multicast transmission rate for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations, based on the information collected by the collection unit; and
a setting unit configured to set those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, for each of the wireless communications units based on the setting policy and switching policy calculated by the policy calculation unit.