Patent ID: 8976651
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A load balance control unit included in a transmission apparatus for transmitting a plurality of units of data, each of said units of data being a piece of transmission data delimited by a given data length, to a corresponding apparatus via a plurality of transmission lines, the load balance control unit comprising: sorting buffers provided for respective transmission lines; a threshold setting unit that sets upper limit retention threshold values for respective sorting buffers, the upper limit retention threshold values being determined in accordance with transmission capacities corresponding to modulation methods for the transmission lines, respectively; and a sorting determination unit that determines, for each of the units of data, in which of the sorting buffers each of the units of data is to be written, taking into consideration retention states and the upper limit retention threshold values of the respective sorting buffers, and a data amount of each of the units of data, wherein a ratio of the upper limit retention threshold values of the respective sorting buffers corresponding to any two of the transmission lines is set to be equal to a ratio of respective transmission capacities of the any two of the transmission lines.