Patent ID: 8548030
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A relay apparatus, comprising: a reception section that receives real-time data; a monitoring section that periodically detects quality of a transmission path to be used for transmitting the real-time data toward a destination thereof; a determination section that determines a length of an interleaving cycle according to the quality of the transmission path; an interleaving section that interleaves the real-time data in the interleaving cycle having the determined length; and a transmission section that transmits the interleaved real-time data to the transmission path, wherein the determination section determines a minimum unit of the interleaving cycle to determine the interleaving cycle so that the interleaving cycle becomes an integral multiple of the minimum unit, wherein, in a case where the real-time data received by the reception section has been interleaved in a predetermined interleaving cycle, the determination section determines a length of the predetermined interleaving cycle as the minimum unit, and wherein the relay apparatus further comprises an information collection section that acquires data contained in capability exchange information transmitted and received between a transmission source of the real-time data and the destination thereof via the relay apparatus, and provides the data to the determination section, the data indicating whether or not the transmission source performs interleaving, and indicating the interleaving cycle at a time when the interleaving is performed.