Estimating congestion based on both communication and non-communication perspectives
AssigneeRakuten Mobile, Inc.
InventorsKenichiro Aoyagi, Jin Kusumi, Takuya Miyazawa
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Abstract
A communication control apparatus includes at least one processor that performs: by a communication congestion detector, detecting congestion state of communications in a communication cell; by a congestion measurer, measuring congestion state of at least one of persons and objects in the communication cell; and by a congestion state estimator, estimating congestion state in the communication cell, based on the congestion state of communications detected by the communication congestion detector and the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects measured by the congestion measurer.
Claims8
A communication control apparatus comprising at least one processor that performs:
- by a communication congestion detector, detecting congestion state of communications in a communication cell;
- by a congestion measurer, measuring congestion state of at least one of persons and objects in the communication cell;
- and
- by a congestion state estimator, estimating congestion state in the communication cell, based on the congestion state of communications detected by the communication congestion detector and the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects measured by the congestion measurer,
- wherein the communication cell is a first communication cell provided by a first communication carrier,
- the communication congestion detector detects the congestion state of the communications of at least the first communication carrier in the first communication cell,
- the congestion measurer measures the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects that communicate through at least a second communication carrier different from the first communication carrier in the first communication cell, and
- the congestion state estimator estimates the congestion state in the first communication cell, based on the congestion state of communications of at least the first communication carrier detected by the communication congestion detector and the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects related to at least the second communication carrier measured by the congestion measurer.
A communication control method performing:
- detecting congestion state of communications in a communication cell;
- measuring congestion state of at least one of persons and objects in the communication cell;
- and
- estimating congestion state in the communication cell, based on the detected congestion state of communications and the measured congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects,
- wherein the communication cell is a first communication cell provided by a first communication carrier,
- the detecting detects the congestion state of the communications of at least the first communication carrier in the first communication cell,
- the measuring measures the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects that communicate through at least a second communication carrier different from the first communication carrier in the first communication cell, and
- the estimating estimates the congestion state in the first communication cell, based on the congestion state of communications of at least the first communication carrier and the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects related to at least the second communication carrier.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a communication control program causing a computer to perform:
- detecting congestion state of communications in a communication cell;
- measuring congestion state of at least one of persons and objects in the communication cell;
- and
- estimating congestion state in the communication cell, based on the detected congestion state of communications and the measured congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects,
- wherein the communication cell is a first communication cell provided by a first communication carrier,
- the detecting detects the congestion state of the communications of at least the first communication carrier in the first communication cell,
- the measuring measures the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects that communicate through at least a second communication carrier different from the first communication carrier in the first communication cell, and
- the estimating estimates the congestion state in the first communication cell, based on the congestion state of communications of at least the first communication carrier and the congestion state of at least one of the persons and the objects related to at least the second communication carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.