# US 9,439,102 B2 · Transmitting apparatus, transmission method, and transmission system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,439,102 B2 - Document ID: US9439102B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/934,250 - Filed: 2013-07-03 - Published: 2013-10-31 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2011-01-19 - Assignees: Fujitsu Limited - Applicants: Fujitsu Limited - Inventors: Keiichi Nakatsugawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9439102B2 ## CPC - H04W 28/0268: {using specific QoS parameters for wireless networks, e.g. QoS class identifier [QCI] or guaranteed bit rate [GBR] (negotiating SLA or negotiating QoS H04W28/24)} - H04L 47/125: by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering - H04L 47/20: Traffic policing - H04L 47/215: using token-bucket - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract A transmitting apparatus transmits a data stream via multiple wireless links and includes a storage unit that stores a guaranteed rate to be guaranteed for the data stream; a dividing unit that divides traffic of the data stream into first traffic corresponding to the guaranteed rate stored in the storage unit and second traffic corresponding to a portion of the traffic exceeding the guaranteed rate; and a distributing unit that distributes the first traffic to at least any one of the wireless links preferentially over the second traffic, and distributes the second traffic to available bandwidths of the plural wireless links. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A transmitting apparatus that transmits a data stream via a plurality of wireless links, the transmitting apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores a guaranteed rate to be guaranteed for the data stream; a dividing unit that divides traffic of the data stream into first traffic corresponding to the guaranteed rate stored in the storage unit and second traffic corresponding to a portion of the traffic exceeding the guaranteed rate; a distributing unit that distributes the first traffic to at least any one of the wireless links preferentially over the second traffic, and distributes the second traffic to available bandwidths of the plurality of wireless links according to a ratio of available bandwidths of the plurality of wireless links after the first traffic has been distributed; and a correspondence information storage unit that stores correspondence information that correlates the data stream and a wireless link whose lowest transmission rate is greater than or equal the guaranteed rate of the plurality of wireless links; wherein the distributing unit distributes the first traffic to the wireless link that is correlated with the data stream in the correspondence information stored in the correspondence information storage unit. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a speed acquiring unit that acquires a transmission speed of each of the wireless links, wherein the distributing unit calculates the available bandwidth of each of the wireless links, based on the transmission speed acquired by the speed acquiring unit and distributes the second traffic based on the calculated available bandwidths. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a monitoring unit that monitors a traffic amount of the data stream, wherein the dividing unit divides the traffic into the first traffic and the second traffic based on the traffic amount monitored by the monitoring unit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the distributing unit divides the first traffic to distribute the first traffic to the wireless links, when the guaranteed rate is higher than the lowest transmission speed of the wireless link correlated with the data stream. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a second storage unit that stores a peak rate that indicates an upper limit of a transmission rate of the data stream; and a shaping unit that shapes the data stream such that the transmission rate of the data stream does not exceed the peak rate stored in the second storage unit, wherein the dividing unit divides the data stream shaped by the shaping unit. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transmission processing unit that gives sequence numbers to packets of the data stream, wherein the dividing unit divides the data stream to which the sequence numbers are given by the transmission processing unit. ### Claim 7 A transmitting apparatus that transmits a plurality of data streams via a plurality of wireless links, the transmitting apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores a guaranteed rate to be guaranteed for each of the data streams; a dividing unit that divides traffic of each of the data streams into first traffic corresponding to the guaranteed rate stored in the storage unit and second traffic corresponding to a portion of the traffic exceeding the guaranteed rate; a distributing unit that distributes the first traffic of each of the data streams to at least any one of the wireless links preferentially over the second traffic of each of the data streams, and distributes the second traffic of each of the data streams to available bandwidth of each of the plurality of wireless links according to a ratio of available bandwidths of the plurality of wireless links after the first traffic has been distributed; and a correspondence information storage unit that stores correspondence information that correlates the data stream and a wireless link whose lowest transmission rate is greater than or equal the guaranteed rate of the plurality of wireless links; wherein the distributing unit distributes the first traffic to the wireless link that is correlated with the data stream in the correspondence information stored in the correspondence information storage unit. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The transmitting apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising: a second storage unit that stores a peak rate that indicates an upper limit of a transmission rate of each of the data streams; and a shaping unit that shapes each of the data stream such that the transmission rate of each of the data streams does not exceed the peak rate stored in the second storage unit, wherein the dividing unit divides each of the data streams shaped by the shaping unit. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The transmitting apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a transmission processing unit that gives sequence numbers to packets of each of the data streams, wherein the dividing unit divides each of the data streams to which the sequence numbers are given by the transmission processing unit. ### Claim 10 A transmission method executed by a transmitting apparatus that transmits a data stream via a plurality of wireless links, the transmission method comprising: acquiring a guaranteed rate to be guaranteed for the data stream; dividing traffic of the data stream into first traffic corresponding to the acquired guaranteed rate and second traffic corresponding to a portion of the traffic exceeding the guaranteed rate; distributing the divided first traffic to at least any one of the wireless links preferentially over the second traffic, and distributing the second traffic to available bandwidth of the plurality of wireless links according to a ratio of available bandwidths of the plurality of wireless links after the first traffic has been distributed; acquiring correspondence information that correlates the data stream and a wireless link whose lowest transmission rate is greater than or equal the guaranteed rate of the plurality of wireless links; and distributing the first traffic to the wireless link that is correlated with the data stream in the acquired correspondence information. ### Claim 11 A transmission system that transmits a data stream via a plurality of wireless links, the transmission system comprising: a first transmitting apparatus that acquires a guaranteed rate to be guaranteed for the data stream, divides traffic of the data stream into first traffic corresponding to the acquired guaranteed rate and second traffic corresponding to a portion of the traffic exceeding the guaranteed rate, distributes the first traffic to at least any one of the wireless links preferentially over the second traffic, distributes the second traffic to available bandwidth of the plurality of wireless links according to a ratio of available bandwidths of the plurality of wireless links after the first traffic has been distributed, acquires correspondence information that correlates the data stream and a wireless link whose lowest transmission rate is greater than or equal the guaranteed rate of the plurality wireless links, and distributes the first traffic to the wireless link that is correlated with the data stream in the acquired correspondence information; and a second transmitting apparatus that receives the data stream distributed to the plurality of wireless links and transmitted by the first transmitting apparatus.