Patent ID: 9544249
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. An apparatus for controlling a communication in which packets to be transmitted over a transport layer connection established between a transmission side apparatus and a reception side apparatus are distributed to a plurality of links for transmission, the apparatus comprising: a hardware processor configured to: estimate a first transmission rate obtained by the communication in which an order alignment process is executed in a layer lower than the transport layer in the reception side apparatus, the order alignment process including aligning an order of received packets in accordance with a transmission order, estimate a second transmission rate obtained by the communication in which the order alignment process is not executed in the reception side apparatus, and control an execution/non-execution of the order alignment process in the reception side apparatus, based on a difference between the first transmission rate and the second transmission rate; and a memory coupled to the hardware processor and configured to temporally store the received packets.