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US 2019/0245774 A1Published application
Communication device and communication network
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsTetsuyoshi SHIMOKAWA, Daisuke OSAGAWA
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Abstract
A communication device for forming a communication network, which generates a search frame, which is a frame for searching for a communication path in setting a communication path to/from another communication device, transmits the search frame to other communication devices, and selects a communication path with a shortest delay time to each of the other communication devices on the basis of information in the search frame having passed through other communication devices and returned to the communication device.
Claims6
A communicator that forms a communication network, the communicator comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- generate a search frame, the search frame being a frame for searching for a communication path in setting a communication path to/from another communicator,
- transmit the search frame to communicators, and
- select a communication path with a shortest delay time to each of the other communicators on the basis of information in the search frame having passed through other communicators and returned to the communicator,
- wherein when generating the search frame, the communicator includes identification information of the communicator, and information on a port through which the search frame is to be transmitted in the search frame, and upon receiving a search frame generated by another communicator, the communicator adds information on a port through which the search frame has been received, the identification information of the communicator, and information on a port through which the search frame is to be transmitted to the received search frame, and transfers the resulting search frame, and
- wherein when a port other than the port through which the search frame has been received is present, the communicator transmits the search frame resulting from addition of the information on the port through which the search frame has been received, the identification information of the communicator, and the information on the port through which the search frame is to be transmitted through each port in operation, or when no port other than the port through which the search frame has been received is present, the communicator transmits the search frame resulting from addition of the information on the port through which the search frame has been received, the identification information of the communicator, and the information on the port through which the search frame is to be transmitted through the port through which the search frame has been received.
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A communication network comprising:
- a controller;
- and
- an actuator, the controller being a master communication device, the actuator being a slave communication device, wherein
- the controller includes identification information of the controller and information on a port through which a search frame for searching for a communication path is to be transmitted in the search frame, and transmits the search frame to the actuator, and
- upon receiving the search frame, the actuator adds information on a port through which the search frame has been received, identification information of the actuator, and information on a port through which the search frame is to be transmitted to the received search frame, and transfers the resulting search frame, wherein the actuator adds the information on the port through which the search frame has been received, the identification information of the actuator, and the information on the port through which the search frame is to be transmitted to the received search frame to obtain a search frame to be transferred, and when a port in operation other than the port through which the search frame has been received is present, transmits the search frame to be transferred through each port in operation, or when no port in operation other than the port through which the search frame has been received is present, transmits the search frame to be transferred through the port through which the search frame has been received.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.