Patent ID: 11924061
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A requested communication quality estimation method executed by a device that estimates a requested communication quality for a macroflow that is a set of microflows, the requested communication quality estimation method comprising:
determining communication quality values for a group of known microflows in the macroflow;
estimating a first requested communication quality for each of microflows in the macroflow, based on the communication quality values for the known microflow group, wherein the estimating includes estimating a communication quality for an unknown microflow in the macroflow, based on the communication quality values for the group of known microflows; and
estimating a second requested communication quality for the macroflow, based on estimated first requested communication qualities for the respective known and unknown microflows.