Patent ID: 7139487

Claim:
An optical burst transmission/reception control system comprising: a plurality of slave station apparatuses which commonly use a transmission band, and a host station apparatus which posts band allocation information for controlling allocation of use transmission bands of said slave station apparatuses to said slave station apparatuses, wherein said respective slave station apparatuses transmit data to said host station apparatus based on the band allocation information posted from said host station apparatus, wherein said host station apparatus has a band allocation control unit, and when the band allocation control unit controls band allocation for a slave station apparatus which does not identify a type of data to be transmitted, said band allocation control unit posts band identification information including identification of the slave station apparatus to the slave station apparatus, and when the band allocation control unit controls band allocation for a slave station apparatus which identifies a type of data to be transmitted, said band allocation control unit posts band allocation information including the identification of the slave station apparatus and the data type to the slave station apparatus, and wherein said plurality of slave station apparatuses, which identify a type of data to be transmitted, have a data transmission control unit, and when the band allocation information is the band allocation information about their slave station apparatuses, making control so as to transmit data to said host station apparatus according to the data types.