Patent ID: 8385816

Claim:
A relay device for monitoring and controlling common public radio interface (CPRI) links that are links using CPRIs functioning as interfaces for connecting multiple relay devices included in a radio base station, the relay device comprising: a link disconnection detecting unit that detects a CPRI link that is disconnected by monitoring, via the CPRI links, relay information containing communication data and control data that contains connection state information on the CPRI links; a distribution unit that distributes a control content with respect to each CPRI link in accordance with a connecting location of a CPRI link in which a link disconnection is detected by the link disconnection detecting unit; and a no-transmission unit that transmits only the control data of the relay information that is transmitted via the detected CPRI link, wherein when the link disconnection detecting unit detects a link disconnection in a downlink direction of a CPRI link connected to a relay device on a downlink side, the link disconnection detecting unit notifies the no-transmission unit of CPRI links connected to multiple relay devices that share the relay device on the downlink side, the no-transmission unit transmits only the control data to the relay devices connected to the notified CPRI links, when the link disconnection detecting unit detects a link disconnection in a downlink direction of a CPRI link connected to a relay device on an uplink side, the link disconnection detecting unit notifies the no-transmission unit of the CPRI link, in which a link disconnection is detected, as a first CPRI link and notifies the no-transmission unit of a CPRI link connected to a relay device on a downlink side as a second CPRI link, and the no-transmission unit transmits only the control data to the relay device connected to the notified first CPRI link and transmits, as the relay information from the relay device connected to the first CPRI link, only the control data to the relay device connected to the notified second CPRI link.