Patent ID: 9001833
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A relay apparatus in a communication system including a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus which is coupled to the transmission apparatus through a plurality of communication routes via a plurality of relay apparatuses which include the relay apparatus and forward packets transmitted from the transmission apparatus for the reception apparatus, the relay apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive distributed sequential packets from the transmission apparatus which distributes sequential packets for the reception apparatus among the plurality of relay apparatuses; a memory configured to store distributed sequential packets of the sequential packets in sequential order, the distributed sequential packets are distributed and transmitted to the relay apparatus by the transmission apparatus; and a processor configured to select a discard packet from the distributed sequential packets based on a discard condition, and to add a discard information to a previous packet and to transmit the previous packet, the discard information indicates a sequence number of the discard packet to be discarded, and the previous packet is one of the distributed sequential packets before the discard packet in sequential order.