Patent ID: 8391801

Claim:
A radio equipment controller connected to a plurality of pieces of radio equipment for performing communication with a mobile station, and also connected to an upper-level device, the radio equipment controller being connected to the plurality of pieces of radio equipment via a plurality of transmission paths, the radio equipment controller comprising: a required time measurement portion that measures, for each piece of radio equipment, required time for the radio equipment and the radio equipment controller to relay data that has a predetermined size and is transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station; and a relaying portion that relays target data that is data to be transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station by delaying a time to transmit the target data based on the required time for the radio equipment relaying the target data, wherein the required time measurement portion measures, for each piece of radio equipment, the required time based on a first time that is time necessary for data that has a predetermined size to be transmitted from the radio equipment controller to the radio equipment and back from the radio equipment to the radio equipment controller, and a second time that is the delay from when data that has a predetermined size is received by the radio equipment until the data is transmitted between the radio equipment controller and the mobile station.