Patent ID: 6330227
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A cell output control apparatus of a communication system of each of a plurality of nodes that constitute a communications network and that communicate with each other in an asynchronous transfer mode, said cell output control apparatus being arranged to control transmission of cells by calculating an allowed transmission cell rate based on traffic information of said allowed transmission cell rate received in a transmission-side node from a receiving-side node, of said nodes, when said cells are transmitted and received between said transmission-side node and said receiving-side node, said cell output control apparatus comprising:a cell time slot allotting unit which allots said cells to any ones of a plurality of cell time slots while the cell transmission intervals of cells to be transmitted are changed by an integer smaller than a divided value and another integer greater than the divided value, in a case where the divided value being a non-integral value obtained from a transmission rate between said transmission-side node and said receiving-side node divided by said allowed transmission cell rate; anda cell output unit which transmits said cells through said communications network in accordance with the cell transmission intervals of said cells.