Patent ID: 7602718
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A packet transmission control apparatus which serially transmits a plurality of packets addressed to a destination node at intervals of a first time period, comprising: a packet accumulating unit configured to buffer a plurality of packets; and a packet transmission controlling unit configured to transmit, to a destination node, a front packet included in the plurality of packets buffered in the packet accumulating unit and transmit remaining packets included in the plurality of packets, in serial fashion at intervals of the first time period to the destination node after a lapse of a second time period, the second time period commencing at the start of transmission of the front packet, the first time period is a time period necessary for a node to resolve a MAC address of a routing destination of the packet, the node relaying the packet transmitted by the packet transmission control apparatus, the second time period is a time period necessary for all nodes, which are to resolve the MAC address, to resolve the MAC address, the nodes being among nodes which the plurality of packets transmitted from the packet transmission control apparatus pass through before reaching the destination node.