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- the present invention relates to a data communication device and a method of intermittent communication for performing simultaneous reception and reproduction of multimedia data by wireless communication, and in particular, to a data communication device capable of reducing power consumption in a wireless communication terminal.
- the present invention relates to a communication device and an intermittent communication method thereof, a program describing the method, and a recording medium recording the program. Background art
- a method in which a terminal device having communication means performs parallel playback while receiving multimedia data is called streaming playback or simply streaming.
- Streaming makes it possible to play back multimedia data for a long time with a larger capacity than the terminal's memory, and to start playing without waiting for all multimedia data to be downloaded. I have.
- Typical streaming protocols include RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol) and RTC RTP Control Protocol (RFC 1889) for data transmission, and RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) for session control. (RFC2326), which is used to exchange data and control information between the transmitting side (server) and the receiving and reproducing side (terminal) in a streaming system (streaming system).
- RTP Real-Time Transport Protocol
- RTC RTP Control Protocol RTC 1889
- RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol
- the server of the streaming system is designed to prevent the overflow of the receiving buffer of multimedia data to be played back at the terminal (overflow) ⁇ ⁇ (underflow), and to prevent congestion in the network on the route. Suitable It is necessary to continuously supply multimedia data to terminals at a low transmission rate. Since the transmission rate required by multimedia data occupies a large percentage of the transmission band in general, many conventional streaming systems use a session (for example, a series of transmissions from the start to the end of a transmission transmission). During this period, communication means are used continuously (hereinafter referred to as “first conventional technology”).
- Streaming which enables long-time content playback, is effective for portable wireless communication terminals that often have a small memory capacity.
- wireless communication is the process that consumes the most power, so conventional streaming systems that continuously use communication means during playback do not use batteries. There was a problem of hastening wear.
- the transmitting wireless device repeats transmission at regular intervals, and the receiving side receives transmitted data by maintaining synchronization with the transmitting side by appropriate means.
- the data transmission is stopped during the time period from the end of transmission in one cycle to the start of the next cycle, and the power consumption by stopping the power supply to the communication means by the receiving wireless device in this time period (Hereinafter referred to as "second conventional technology").
- the second conventional technique determines that the transition to the intermittent communication state should be performed when the state where the communication volume between the wireless communication terminal and the base station per unit time is small lasts for a certain period of time. It is not used for a streaming system that uses communication means continuously during a session.
- intermittent communication is simply applied to a streaming system, After the power supply to the communication means is stopped, data cannot be received until the start of the next intermittent cycle, and underflow may occur on the receiving side while data transmission is stopped. Occurs.
- the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and when performing streaming reproduction at a wireless communication terminal, a wireless communication process during streaming while satisfying a restriction on a memory capacity for a reception buffer.
- the present invention has the following configuration to achieve the above object.
- the gist of the present invention is a data communication device and an intermittent communication method for receiving data intermittently transmitted from a transmitting side and reproducing the data in real time, and a method of intermittent communication based on the data characteristics of the data. And determining transmission data of the data transmitted from the transmitting side, which does not cause overflow and underflow in the real-time reproduction of the data in the data communication device.
- an intermittent communication method for a data communication device comprising: a receiving step of storing intermittently received data in a buffer memory; and a reproducing step of reproducing the data stored in the buffer memory in parallel with the receiving step. And a first formulating step of formulating a first transmission schedule that does not cause overflow and underflow in the buffer memory based on the data characteristics of the data. And characterized in that:
- the data communication apparatus can perform the real-time reproduction of the data (the reception stored in parallel with the storage of the reception data). It is possible to determine the first transmission schedule (transmission information) of the data transmitted by the transmission side without causing overflow and underflow during data reproduction. Therefore, by transmitting the first transmission schedule to the transmission side, the data communication device can actively shift to data transmission with a large intermittent period, which avoids overflow and underflow during real-time playback. . Therefore, when performing streaming reproduction in the data communication device, it is possible to reduce power consumption in wireless communication processing during streaming.
- the receiving side does not cause underflow.
- the first transmission schedule of the communication can be determined. Further, as the data characteristic, the first transmission schedule of the intermittent communication that does not cause overflow can be obtained by having the accumulated data amount used by the elapsed time.
- the above-mentioned overnight characteristics are not limited to the elapsed time and the total weighing of both nights.
- the first transmission schedule may have a data transmission speed, and if necessary, have a buffering amount of data to be stored in a buffer memory in advance from the time of data transmission on the transmission side to the time of starting reproduction. It is possible to specify the transmission rate / buffering amount suitable for the actual environment. .
- maximizing the transmission rate may increase the data transmission error rate.
- the transmission speed in the first transmission schedule can be initially minimized. If the error rate is low, the transmission rate can be increased later and the intermittent period can be increased.
- the amount of buffering may be reduced in order to limit the amount of margin for anticipated emergency memory usage requests and to limit the time a user must wait before starting playback.
- the data transmission speed may be smaller than the maximum value or larger than the minimum value by a margin (for example, equivalent to the amount of delay dispersion) corresponding to the margin for the fluctuation of the transmission environment.
- a margin for example, equivalent to the amount of delay dispersion
- the “maximum and minimum data transmission rates” in the present invention include “the transmission rate is close to maximum or close to minimum” and the “maximum buffering amount” is “ Make the buffering amount close to the maximum ”.
- the data characteristic can be obtained by requesting the transmitting side if it has not been obtained in advance.
- intermittent change information for example, intermittent communication change time interval or data transmission
- the first transmission schedule has intermittent communication information indicating an amount of data transmission in an intermittent cycle, and includes, for example, a cycle of intermittent communication, a data transmission amount in each cycle, a modulation scheme, and a transmission rate.
- the first transmission schedule has a new intermittent communication start time, so that the transmitting / receiving device can change the first transmission schedule in synchronization with the first transmission schedule.
- the communication partner side based on the data characteristics, a second formulation step of formulating a second transmission schedule in which the buffer memory does not cause overflow and underflow in the buffer memory, Correcting the current transmission schedule to the first or second transmission schedule if the first and second transmission schedules are the same. You can move to schedule.
- the first formulating step, the comparing step, and the suggesting step may be performed by any one of the transmitting device and the receiving device, but the change of the communication amount is easily detected, the information held, the processing device, and the like. In consideration of the performance of the system, it can be performed by the more efficient one.
- the correcting step is performed between the transmitting device and the first receiving device, and between the transmitting device and the first receiving device. It is possible to shift to the same transmission schedule by performing between the second receiving devices.
- the first formulating step of formulating the first transmission schedule by using the data characteristics regarding the application of the SI layer model is also described. By using the OSI layer model at the overnight link layer, the buffer memory overflows or underflows even during streaming playback as compared to the case where the intermittent cycle is simply changed based on the traffic per unit time. The intermittent cycle can be changed without any change.
- the gist of the present invention is a data communication device that reproduces received data, stores an inter-station communication unit that performs data transmission / reception processing with a communication partner device, and stores the data received by the inter-station communication unit.
- a buffer memory a data reproducing unit that reproduces stored data stored in the buffer memory in parallel with a storing process in which the buffer memory stores the data, and stores quality management information of the received data that is reproduced. Day An evening quality management unit; and a schedule determination unit that transmits a transmission schedule of the data in which the buffer memory does not cause overflow or underflow to the inter-station communication unit.
- the transmission schedule includes the quality management information. It is characterized by being formulated using
- the gist of the present invention is a data communication device, an inter-station communication unit that transmits data to a communication partner device, a data quality management unit that stores the data quality management information, A buffer determining unit that transmits a transmission schedule of the data that does not cause overflow or underflow to the inter-station communication unit, wherein the transmission schedule is determined using the quality management information. It is characterized by being done.
- a transmission schedule that prevents overflow and underflow even when streaming is performed with a communication device with a small buffer memory capacity is determined by formulating a transmission schedule using the quality management information. it can. Also, a data quality reference unit for transmitting the quality management information from the data quality management unit to the schedule determination unit is provided, and the transmission schedule is determined by the schedule determination unit. The transmission schedule can be efficiently transmitted to the schedule determination unit, and the determined transmission schedule can be efficiently transmitted to the transmission side via the inter-station communication unit.
- the processing load on the schedule determination unit can be reduced.
- the quality control information shall include the elapsed time after the start of real-time playback, which is generally a non-linear relationship, and the cumulative data required until the elapsed time.
- the transmission schedule of the intermittent communication in which the receiving side does not cause an overflow can be obtained.
- the transmission schedule of the intermittent communication which does not cause the overflow can be obtained by having the accumulated data amount used by the elapsed time.
- the quality control information is not limited to the elapsed time and the cumulative data itself, but can be used to derive them (including approximate information), such as characteristic quantities and relational expressions (including approximate quantities and approximate equations).
- approximate information such as characteristic quantities and relational expressions (including approximate quantities and approximate equations).
- the transmission schedule has a data transmission speed and, if necessary, can have a buffering amount of data to be stored in a buffer memory in advance from the time of data transmission on the transmission side to the time of starting reproduction. Enables the specification of transmission rate / buffering amount suitable for the environment.
- the intermittent period can be easily increased by maximizing the buffering amount. Also, maximizing the transmission speed makes it easier to increase the intermittent period.
- maximizing the transmission rate may increase the data transmission error rate.
- the transmission speed in the transmission schedule can be initially minimized. If the error rate is low, the transmission rate can be increased later and the intermittent period can be increased.
- the transmission schedule includes intermittent communication information indicating an amount of data transmission in an intermittent cycle.
- the transmission schedule includes a cycle of intermittent communication, a data transmission rate in each cycle, a modulation method, and a transmission rate.
- the transmission schedule has a new intermittent communication start time, so that the transmission / reception device can change the transmission schedule in synchronization with the transmission schedule.
- the intermittent communication method to be executed by the data communication device should be described in the program. This makes it easy to copy the intermittent communication method, makes it possible to use the intermittent communication method with many communication devices, and records the program on a recording medium, so that it can be easily installed on a decommissioning device. be able to.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a radio communication terminal and a base station for realizing a radio transmission / reception system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a device configuration of a streaming system configured using the wireless communication terminal and the base station shown in FIG.
- FIG. 3 is a characteristic table of the communication unit according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a characteristic table of multimedia data transmitted in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a procedure for executing a streaming session in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a sequence chart showing a procedure for executing a streaming session in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram showing a method for determining a transmission rate of a base station according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure in which the streaming session shifts to the intermittent communication state in a different cycle in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a sequence chart showing a procedure in which the streaming session shifts to the intermittent communication state in a different cycle in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a procedure for calculating the intermittent cycle in FIG.
- FIG. 11 is a conceptual diagram showing the relationship between the elapsed time and the amount of transfer data in the intermittent communication state according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram showing a procedure for calculating the intermittent cycle in FIG.
- FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of the wireless transmission / reception system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a radio communication terminal and a base station for realizing the radio transmission / reception system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a radio communication terminal and a base station for realizing the radio transmission / reception system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a device configuration of a streaming system configured using the wireless communication terminal and the base station shown in FIG.
- FIG. 1 As components of a streaming system configured using a wireless communication terminal and a base station for realizing the wireless transmission and reception system according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. There are a station 121, a server 203, and multimedia data 204 (video (moving image, still image), audio, text, etc., and a combination thereof).
- multimedia data 204 video (moving image, still image), audio, text, etc., and a combination thereof).
- the server 203 and the base station 121 are connected by a network 202, and the base station 121 and the wireless communication terminal 101 are connected by some wireless communication means 201.
- the server 203 transmits the multimedia data 204 stored in the accessible storage device to at least one wireless communication terminal 101 via the base station 121.
- the wireless communication terminal 101 receives and reproduces the transmitted multimedia data 204 in parallel.
- the wireless communication terminal 101 (shown as a wireless communication terminal 201 in FIG. 2) includes a multimedia data communication control unit 102, a receiver 106, and a communication unit 10 as shown in FIG. It has seven.
- the multimedia data communication control means 102 includes a communication quality management unit 103, a multimedia data reception / playback unit 104, and a buffer 105.
- the communication quality management unit 103 monitors the multimedia data received by the buffer 105, and obtains and manages quality information such as a reception error rate / data and statistical information including a received data amount. Further, the communication quality management unit 103 performs processing related to transition to intermittent communication during streaming (communication in which data transmission is stopped during a time period from the end of transmission in one cycle to the start of the next cycle). Details will be described later.
- the timer 106 is, for example, a clock for judging jitters (fluctuations) in the communication path.
- the server compares the time stamp given to the multimedia data with the display time of the timer. It is possible to judge the jitter with the communication quality control unit 103 and the communication unit control unit 108 to be described later.
- the communication unit 107 includes a communication unit control unit 108, a user-data communication unit 109, a wireless communication unit 110, and a power supply control unit 111.
- the communication unit control unit 108 receives signals from the communication quality management unit 103, the timer 106, and the wireless communication unit 110, and can output intermittent communication data to the power supply control unit 111 and the wireless communication unit 110. ing.
- the wireless communication unit 110 is capable of inputting and outputting signals to and from the communication unit control unit 108 and the user data communication unit 109, and controls power supply during a non-communication period (intermittent period) in an intermittent communication state.
- the power supply from the unit m is stopped, and the power consumption of the wireless communication processing is reduced.
- the multimedia information transmitted from the transmitting side is received by the wireless communication unit 110, and is transferred and accumulated from the user-data communication unit 109 to the buffer 105 based on a control signal of the communication unit control unit 108.
- the multimedia information stored in the buffer 105 is reproduced in real time by the multimedia data receiving / reproducing unit 104 based on the time stamp.
- the power supply from the power supply control unit 111 to the wireless communication unit 110 is stopped. The power consumption of the communication processing is reduced.
- the base station 121 (shown as a base station 202 in FIG. 2) includes a multimedia data communication control unit 122, a timer 126, and a communication unit 127, as shown in FIG.
- the multimedia data communication control unit 122 includes a communication quality management unit 123, a multimedia data overnight transmission unit 124, and a buffer 125.
- the communication unit 127 includes a communication unit control unit 128, a user data communication unit 129, and a wireless communication unit 130.
- the communication quality management unit 123 maintains the quality information synchronized with the communication quality management unit 103 by managing the data transmission amount and, if necessary, communicating with the communication quality management unit 103 on the receiving side.
- the wireless communication means is a communication means substantially conforming to Hi SWANa.
- the communication method of HiSWANa is TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) / TDD (Time Division Duplex), in which one MAC (Media Access Control) frame is 2 msec, and QoS (Quality of Service: transmission)
- TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
- TDD Time Division Duplex
- QoS Quality of Service: transmission
- FIG. 3 shows the average transmission rates 302, 303, and 304 of each modulation scheme obtained when data is transmitted for only one MAC frame in each cycle during intermittent communication.
- a cycle of 2 msec means a state in which the communication means is used continuously, that is, a constant communication state.
- the continuous communication state and the intermittent communication state with a cycle of 2 msec are handled without distinction.
- the multimedia data 204 for performing streaming is a key frame animation data as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-275244.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a part of the data characteristics of the key frame animation. In FIG. 4 and the following description, the following symbols are used.
- Key frame number (i) 401 key frame serial number (1, 2, ..., N)
- Buffer size BC Buffer capacity of wireless communication terminal
- the second two key frames satisfying ⁇ t ⁇ t i + l and data of K i + 1 are used. Therefore, it is necessary that the i + 1-th key frame has been transmitted to the wireless communication terminal by the time.
- the “sum of the data amount that needs to be acquired by” 404 for the time is calculated as C ,, 2 ,..., N + 1 .
- this buffer can be reused and is calculated as BC + C ,, 2 , ....
- the buffer size BC is 32768 bytes.
- the key frame animation is a speed-variable multimedia data 204 in which the required bandwidth per unit time fluctuates greatly over time.However, the transmission speed must be constant during streaming. This has the advantage that transmission control is easy and communication channel congestion is less likely to occur.
- the server 203 it is considered effective for the server 203 to transmit data to the base station 121 at a constant rate. However, in this embodiment, details thereof will not be described. It is assumed that the difference in the data transmission speed between the server 203 and the base station 121 is within a range that can be absorbed by the buffer of the base station 121.
- the time interval of each intermittent cycle in the intermittent communication state is constant. That is, in the following description of the embodiment, an example of a procedure for determining the time interval of each intermittent transmission is shown, the transmission amount in each intermittent transmission is fixed, and one MAC frame in each intermittent cycle shown in FIG. It should be smaller than the transmission amount when only transmitting.
- the flow chart shown in Fig. 5 and the sequence chart shown in Fig. 6 show the procedure for executing a streaming session (conversation control) between a wireless communication terminal and a server, which is performed using the devices and data shown in Figs. It will be described according to. In this embodiment, it is assumed that only one wireless communication terminal operates, and the multimedia data reception / playback unit 104 on the wireless communication terminal requests activation of a streaming session.
- the wireless communication terminal 101 when starting the streaming session (step 501), the multimedia data receiving / reproducing section 104 of the wireless communication terminal 101 (FIG. 2) starts the server 203 (FIG. 2).
- Steps 502,601,602 the specific method of composing the transmission message is not specified in this embodiment, for example, in the above-mentioned RTSP, the wireless communication terminal acquires the session information using the DESCRIBE command (control message). Means to do so.
- the wireless communication terminal can acquire the session information g from the server 203 by exchanging the following control messages using the DESCRIBE command.
- the description of the session information in the sdp format is omitted.
- the session information obtained by the above means includes the characteristics of the multimedia data to be reproduced (for example, FIG. 4) and the characteristics of the communication path to be a path. If the wireless communication terminal 101 (or the base station 121) has obtained the characteristics of the multimedia data and the characteristics of the communication channel in advance, the data of the data and the characteristics of the communication channel are included in the session information. The inclusion may be omitted.
- the characteristics of the multimedia data include a required band of data.
- the characteristics of the multimedia data according to the present embodiment include the sum 404 of the data amount that needs to be acquired by the key frame number 401, the start time 402, the data 403, and t i + 1 shown in FIG. It is assumed that information of a total sum 405 of the amount of data receivable by the wireless communication terminal (corresponding to the capacity of the reception buffer usable at the time of ti to ti + 1 ) is included. Note that Figure 4 indirectly shows the required bandwidth for the day.
- the characteristics of the multimedia data need only derive the time elapsed since the start of data playback and the cumulative amount of data required by the elapsed time (including the effective approximate time and amount). It may be expressed by a function or a calculation formula of a linear function approximation.
- the characteristics of the communication path include an average transmission speed that can be provided by the entire transmission path between the wireless communication terminal and the server, and an average delay time required for transmission.
- the average transmission speed of the path is used for checking whether or not the transmission speed indicated by the determination method in the following description of the present embodiment is appropriate.
- the average transmission speed of the route may be specified through a session control protocol such as RTSP depending on the capabilities of the network and communication devices on the route, and even if it cannot be specified, it will take the round trip of the DESCRIBE command etc. It can be estimated using time.
- the multimedia data receiving / reproducing unit 104 of the wireless communication terminal 101 determines at least the characteristics of the multimedia data and the average transmission speed in the path of the acquired session information by the communication quality managing unit of the wireless communication terminal 101.
- the information is transmitted to 103 (step 603).
- the communication quality management unit 103 of the wireless communication terminal 101 uses the acquired session information to transmit data from the base station 121 to the wireless communication terminal 101 at a data transmission rate and from the start of transmission to the start of reproduction. During this period, a buffering amount for performing buffering (accumulation) in the reception buffer 105 of the wireless communication terminal 101 in advance is calculated.
- a method for determining an appropriate transmission rate and buffering amount will be described with reference to FIG. In Fig. 7, the horizontal axis is time, and the vertical axis is data amount. In Fig. 4, "the total amount of data that needs to be acquired by 404" and "the amount of data that the wireless communication terminal can receive by t i + 1 " 405 ".
- the “total data amount 404 that needs to be acquired by 404” is indicated by a non-linear lower-side polygonal line 701, and the wireless communication terminal has cumulatively received more data than this line 701 at any time. If not, it is underflow.
- the “total 405 of the data amount that can be received by the wireless communication terminal by t i + 1 ” is indicated by a non-linear upper polygonal line 702, and the cumulative amount of data that is equal to or greater than this line 702 is received at any time. If so, it will overflow.
- the intermittent cycle Can be easily increased, which meets the object of the present invention.
- the transmission speed be as large as possible.However, if the transmission speed is increased, congestion on the route is likely to occur. Even if a device provides a function to maintain constant communication quality, maximizing the transmission rate (using such a modulation method) will increase the data transmission error rate. Great.
- a straight line 704 having a minimum transmission speed is selected as a safe and effective method even in an environment where the propagation path environment fluctuates greatly, such as wireless.
- a method for determining the intermittent period under such settings will be described later with reference to FIG.
- the communication quality management unit 103 of the wireless communication terminal first issues a request for securing a transmission band in the data link connection to the communication means control unit 108 ( Steps 503, 604).
- the communication means control unit 108 of the wireless communication terminal returns a confirmation response to the communication quality management unit 103 (step 605).
- How to secure the transmission band is not the subject of the present embodiment. However, if the communication means conforms to HiSWANa, if necessary, the communication between the wireless communication terminal and the base station can be performed.
- the communication control unit has a function to secure such a band by negotiating. Hereinafter, in the present embodiment, description will be made assuming that the bandwidth is successfully secured.
- the communication quality management unit 103 of the wireless communication terminal executes a first control procedure (control information transmission request) with the communication quality management unit 123 of the base station (steps 504 and 606).
- the communication quality management unit 123 of the base station transmits from the communication quality management unit 103 of the wireless communication terminal the characteristics of the multimedia data that is the control information of the wireless communication terminal 101, Obtain the speed and the receiving buffer capacity (buffering amount).
- the multimedia data reception / reproduction 104 of the wireless communication terminal which has received the transmission confirmation of the session information from the communication quality management unit 103 of the wireless communication terminal (step 607), executes A request to start transmission of multimedia data 204 is made to 203 (step 608).
- a request to start transmission of multimedia data 204 is made to 203 (step 608).
- the server 203 which has received the transmission start request at night 204, transmits the multimedia data 204 to the wireless communication terminal via the base station 121 (steps 505 and 609), and receives the data at the wireless communication terminal.
- Terminal 101 starts reproducing data in parallel with the reception.
- the wireless communication between the wireless communication terminal 101 and the base station 121 is in a constant communication state (that is, an intermittent communication state with a period of 2 msec).
- the streaming session ends when all data has been reproduced or when the wireless communication terminal 101 requests the server 203 to suspend the session (step 506).
- step 505 the procedure for reducing the power consumption is shown in the flowchart shown in FIG. 8, and the sequence shown in FIG. A description will be given based on the chart, the flow chart shown in FIG. 10, FIG. 11 and FIG.
- the communication quality management units 103 and 123 of the wireless communication terminal 101 and the base station 121 monitor the traffic of the session to be managed and determine whether or not the session has been interrupted (step 803).
- the communication means control units 108 and 128 of the wireless communication terminal 101 and the base station 121 monitor the communication amount of the wireless communication between the wireless communication terminal and the base station, and determine whether the wireless data is completed. (Step 803).
- the communication quality management units 103 and 123 can know the communication amount between the wireless communication terminal 101 and the wireless communication units 107 and 127 of the base station 121 via the communication unit control units 108 and 128 of the own station. .
- the communication quality management units 103 and 123 determine the repetition of the intermittent cycle based on the amount of communication observed during the transfer of the multimedia data 204 and the data characteristics obtained by the above-described procedure. It is determined whether or not to perform the calculation (step 804). If it is not necessary to recalculate the intermittent cycle, the process proceeds to the execution of the intermittent communication (step 802).
- the details of the case where the recalculation of the intermittent cycle should be performed are not limited.
- the reason for recalculating the first intermittent cycle is as follows.
- the intermittent cycle is calculated by performing recalculation. It may be possible to increase the transmission suspension period in the.
- the second reason for recalculating the intermittent cycle is that when the actually observed communication traffic has an error with the previously obtained data characteristics, the first control It is conceivable to perform recalculation after obtaining the latest information related to transmission control from the communication quality management unit of the above.
- step 804 If recalculation is to be performed in step 804, the maximum applicable intermittent cycle is calculated according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 10 described below (step 805).
- the applicable procedure for calculating the maximum intermittent period is the maximum that can transmit untransmitted data without overflow or underflow of the receive buffer 105 of the wireless communication terminal 101. Calculate the intermittent period of. Detailed calculation of the maximum intermittent period will be described later.
- the recalculated communication quality management unit compares the newly calculated intermittent period pause period with the current intermittent period pause period, and if the new intermittent period is longer than the current intermittent period, it is longer. It is determined that the transition to the intermittent communication state in the intermittent cycle should be made (Step 806). Conversely, if the calculated intermittent cycle is smaller than the current intermittent cycle, it is determined that a transition to the intermittent communication state with a shorter intermittent cycle should be made (step 806).
- step 806 If it is determined in step 806 that a transition to a different intermittent cycle is to be made, the communication quality management units 103 and 123 of the wireless communication terminal or the base station that made the determination transmit the second control procedure Activate (second negotiation procedure) (steps 807 and 902) and propose a transition to a new intermittent intermittent communication state (transmission schedule).
- second negotiation procedure second negotiation procedure
- any of the communication quality management units 103 and 123 can start the second control procedure for the communication quality management unit of the partner station.
- the intermittent communication state is immediately released, and the transmission becomes a continuous communication state and transmission becomes possible.
- the speed at which data arrives at the wireless communication terminal is estimated from the schedule at which the base station transmits data to the wireless communication terminal. The difference between the two is that the actual arrival speed is not the same as the transmission schedule on the base station side due to the occurrence of jitters etc. depending on the conditions of the transmission path. That is, there is a possibility that a judgment with a high i degree can be made.
- communication quality management section 123 of the base station proposed to change the intermittent cycle (change of transmission schedule) uses Similar to the communication quality management unit 103 of the communication terminal, the calculation procedure of the applicable maximum intermittent cycle shown in FIG. Is calculated (step 807).
- the cycle calculated by the communication quality management section 123 is the same as the cycle proposed by the communication quality management section 103 on the terminal side, an agreement is made, if different, a correction is made, and if the same as the current cycle, rejection is proposed. If the above modification is proposed, the same procedure of calculating the maximum intermittent cycle is repeated until another response is returned, and when the proposal side (communication quality management unit 103 on the terminal side) receives a reply of agreement or rejection. (Steps 808 and 902), the second control procedure ends.
- the communication quality management unit 123 of the base station calculates the procedure shown in FIG. 10 described later, the same procedure is used to transfer untransmitted data to the overflow flow of the buffer of the base station.
- the maximum intermittent period that can be transmitted without underflow can be calculated.
- the slope of the interpolated straight line in the lower line graph of Fig. 12 is “speed at which data is used in the wireless communication terminal” and the slope of the interpolated straight line in the upper line graph is “wireless communication”. Instead of these straight lines, they roughly correspond to “the speed at which the terminal receives data from the base station” and “the speed at which the base station sends data to the wireless communication terminal” and “the speed at which the base station receives data”.
- the base station can transmit data from the server without buffer overflow or underflow.
- the maximum intermittent period that can be relayed and transmitted can be calculated.
- the base station 121 generally has more resources (memory and secondary storage capacity, CPU processing speed) than the wireless communication terminal 101, sufficient buffering is performed in the base station, and the base station 121 transmits data from the server to the base station. transmission By properly selecting the speed, it is often possible to determine before the execution that no overflow or underflow occurs in the base station.
- this second control procedure (the second negotiation procedure) is when the communication quality management unit on either the transmitting side or the receiving side detects a change in the transmission environment through the management of the communication quality, and when the environment deteriorates. Is to reduce the period of intermittent communication if necessary, and to increase the period of intermittent communication if possible when the environment improves. Therefore, the information necessary for the recalculation processing (for example, the cumulative reception amount and available buffer amount at a certain time on the receiving side, the reception error rate, the data characteristics indicating the elapsed time of the transmitted data and the cumulative data amount, ), The recalculation itself may be performed on either the transmitting side or the receiving side.
- the communication quality unit of the wireless communication terminal that has activated the second control procedure includes information necessary for the recalculation processing that is not held by the base station (here, the accumulated information at a certain time on the terminal side).
- the base station After sending the reception amount, the available buffer amount, and the reception error rate) to the base station, the base station itself can request recalculation without performing recalculation. Since the terminal information sent is the latest, the terminal can accept the new cycle calculated by the base station without negotiation. This is an effective method when the calculation processing capacity of the base station is significantly superior to that of the terminal.
- the second control procedure can be divided into two processes, a process of sharing information necessary for recalculation, and a process of recalculating and negotiating a new intermittent cycle, and both can be performed independently.
- the former shared processing is performed before the start of the second control procedure
- the new intermittent processing is performed while referring to the information shared at the start of the second control procedure. It shows how to recalculate and negotiate.
- the first control means will It is not distinguished from the control procedure.
- the communication quality management units 103 and 123 of the wireless communication terminal 101 or the base station 121 calculate the applicable maximum intermittent cycle (step 1001 (805 , 807)).
- a predetermined modulation scheme M and a maximum cycle P are selected from the modulation schemes 302, 303, 304 and the cycle 301 shown in FIG. 3 (step 1002). Note that the modulation scheme M and the cycle P must be able to maintain the current transmission rate between the base station and the wireless communication terminal.
- step 1003 the maximum and minimum transmission rates between the base station and the radio communication terminal that do not cause overflow or underflow in the intermittent communication state are obtained (step 1003).
- the method of finding the maximum and minimum transmission rates in step 1003 is basically similar to the method in the constant communication state described with reference to FIG. However, the relationship between the elapsed time and the amount of transfer data in the intermittent communication state is represented by a non-linear line graph 1101 as shown in FIG.
- the transfer data amount is Will not Increase. Therefore, it is sufficient to show that the polygonal line 1101 in FIG.
- a polygonal line 1203 represents the sum of the amount of data required is acquired by the time t f
- the wireless communication terminal can receive a de Isseki amount by time Of the parallelogram that can be drawn between the polygonal line 1204 that represents the sum of the upper and lower sides 1206 where the upper and lower sides have the maximum inclination and the upper and lower sides 1207 where the inclination of the lower and upper sides 1207 are the minimum and maximum transmission that is required.
- Speed Note that a solid line 1205 indicates the relationship between the transmission speed of the intermittent cycle before the recalculation.
- the height 1208 of the parallelogram can be determined from the transmission amount around the period determined by the intermittent period P and the modulation method M, and the transmission time within a certain period.
- This height 12 The fact that 08 is determined depending on the cycle can be said to be one of the features of the present embodiment. Since the start time T, is not determined at the start time tnego of the second control procedure, in the case of the present embodiment, the difference between the two is appropriately estimated in advance, and the start time T, and the maximum / minimum speed You need to choose.
- an appropriate effective transmission speed Se is selected between them (step 1004).
- the communication quality management unit queries the communication means control unit, if necessary, to ensure that the target streaming session has enough communication time to achieve the speed Se under the modulation method M and the intermittent period P. It is determined whether or not can be occupied (step 1005). If it can be occupied, P will be the maximum period required (step 1006). If it cannot be occupied, it is determined whether a shorter intermittent cycle can be selected based on the table shown in FIG. 3 (step 1007). If it can be selected, the cycle and the selectable modulation method are set as the new modulation method M and the period P, and the calculation is performed again. Since the period eventually becomes the minimum, the calculation always ends (step 1008). In this case, a constant communication state is required.
- the process is returned to FIG. 8, and when agreement is reached on the intermittent state cycle to be shifted (step 808), the communication quality management unit of the station that made the proposal changes the intermittent cycle (step 809). To this end, it requests the communication means control unit of its own station to transition to the intermittent communication state (transmission schedule) with the agreed new cycle (step 903).
- the communication means control unit 108 on the terminal side since the communication means conforms to HiSWANa, the communication means control unit 108 on the terminal side sends the intermittent cycle after the transition proposed by the message RLC_SLE EP to the communication means control unit 128 on the base station side. Send it (step 904).
- the communication means control unit 128 of the base station receiving the proposal makes a determination to the communication means control unit 108 on the terminal side as to whether or not a transition to the intermittent communication state can be made by the message RLC-SLEEP-ACK, If the transfer is possible, return the intermittent cycle and start time indicating the transfer schedule after the transfer. Step 904).
- the change of the intermittent cycle means the change of the data transmission amount at the intermittent cycle, which is the change of the transmission time interval (intermittent time interval) or the data transmission amount.
- the transmission rate may be changed or the modulation method (coding rate) may be changed.
- HiSWANa is of the TDMA / TDD system
- the wireless communication terminal and the base station transition to the intermittent communication state at the same time at the start time, and can continue communication while maintaining synchronization (step 907). Whether or not the transition to the new intermittent communication state, and if successful, the cycle and start time are transmitted from the communication means control unit of each station to the communication quality management unit (steps 905 and 906). Used for transmission control and the like.
- FIG. 13 shows a flowchart of the process of the intermittent communication according to the embodiment. That is, first, the communication quality management unit on the terminal side obtains the reception buffer capacity and information (data characteristics, etc.) to be processed in the application layer (step 1302), and the transmission amount or cycle in intermittent communication between the terminal and the base station. (Step 1303), and it is determined whether or not overflow or underflow of the receiving buffer occurs (Step 1304). If not, the process shifts to data transmission by intermittent communication (Step 1305). If so, return to step 1303. On the other hand, it is determined whether or not transmission of all data has been completed (step 1306). If not completed, it is determined whether or not the transmission amount and cycle of intermittent communication should be corrected (step 1307). Moves to step 1303, and if no correction is required, moves to step 1305 to continue data transmission.
- the communication means control unit 128 of the base station 121 starts data transmission from the base station 121 to the wireless communication terminal 101 at the start time of each cycle and schedules a certain cycle. After the transmission amount, the operation of stopping the relay to the wireless communication terminal 101 of the data sent from the server until the start time of the next cycle is repeated every cycle. '
- the power supply control unit 111 supplies power to the wireless communication unit 110 after data transmission from the base station 121 to the wireless communication terminal 101 ends in one cycle until the start of the next cycle. To stop.
- the maximum possible intermittent communication cycle that does not cause overflow or underflow in the reception buffer of the wireless communication terminal is calculated.
- the power consumption of the wireless communication processing can be reduced.
- the transition to the intermittent communication state is not performed.
- a streaming system configured using the wireless transmission / reception system according to the embodiment can positively shift to the intermittent communication state if possible by using the control procedure. Can be planned.
- the number of wireless communication terminals is one.
- the communication means supports a one-to-many communication mode (multicast) like HiSWANa, as shown in FIG.
- a plurality of wireless communication terminals can be provided.
- the base station activates the second control procedure to the remaining wireless communication terminals and presents the intermittent cycle By doing so, the remaining wireless communication terminals can also sequentially transition to the intermittent state.
- the configuration is described based on the 0SI7 layer model, and the datalink layer of the 0SI7 layer model and its upper layer are separately shown along the vertical direction of the drawing.
- a combination of the transport layer, the session layer, the presentation layer, and the application layer of the 0SI7 layer model is hereinafter referred to as an application.
- This is a system realized using the widely used TCP / IP communication protocol, and usually handles the above four layers (although the transport layer may not be included) without any particular division. It is imitated.
- the communication means control unit 108 and the user-data communication unit 109 are collectively referred to as an inter-station communication unit 1089, and the communication means control unit
- the inter-station communication unit 1289 includes 128 and the user-data communication unit 129 together.
- the multimedia data receiving / reproducing unit 104 and the multimedia data transmitting unit 124 have a plurality of entities. That is, the first embodiment has described the case where the number of the multimedia data overnight receiving / reproducing unit 104 and the multimedia data transmitting unit 124 are one for convenience of explanation.
- the multimedia data receiving / reproducing unit 104 represents the processing of the application, and a plurality of processing entities (entities and processes) using the data transmission service of one data link layer exist simultaneously. May work.
- the multimedia data transmitting unit 124 may simultaneously perform a plurality of processing operations using one data link layer data transmission service. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the user data quality management units 103a and 123a, which will be described later, of the communication quality management units 103 and 123 manage the quality of the traffic of a plurality of user data (multimedia data). .
- a power supply control unit 111b is also provided on the base station side so that the base station side consumes power by intermittent communication. The power can be reduced.
- the communication quality management units 103 and 123 in Fig. 14 are composed of the user-to-user data quality management units 103a and 123a that manage the abridged information that depends on each application, and the data transmission schedule of the intermittent communication, which is the process for the entire station
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c that formulate, determine, and negotiate, and the user data quality reference units 103b and 123b that enable information exchange between the user data quality management unit and the communication schedule determination unit. Have.
- the user data quality management units 103a and 123a receive multimedia data (user data) stored in the buffer 105 and receive the multimedia data all at once.
- FI 1 is held via inter-office communication units 1089 and 1289.
- the application information FI1 includes data characteristics of user data transmitted between the user data quality management units 103a and 123a, a buffer capacity that can be used by a receiving side, and a real-time constraint (a communication time is Includes reception error information QoS that corresponds to the error rate of user data, including the fact that the cumulative communication data volume that must be satisfied.
- the application information FI1 is information that the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c refer to when formulating, determining, and negotiating a data transmission schedule, which will be described later, and may be hereinafter referred to as user data quality management information. .
- the user data quality management information includes the multimedia data characteristic (FIG. 4) including the required bandwidth of the multimedia data and the transmission path between the wireless communication terminal and the server. It includes the average transmission rate in the path that can be provided by the whole ( Figure 3).
- the user data quality management information is equivalent between the terminal and the base station as described above. 9
- the terminal and the user data quality management units 103a and 123a of the base station communicate with the user / data quality management unit of the communication partner via the inter-station communication units 1089 and 1289, if necessary. It communicates, synchronizes this information and has the same thing.
- the data characteristics and the buffer capacity available to the receiving side can be synchronized in the same manner as in the first embodiment.
- the same procedure can be used to feed back from the receiving user / data quality management unit to the transmitting user / data quality management unit, and the source of the user / user data in the upper layer matches 121a.
- the feed pack can be performed using the first conventional technique, RTCP (RFC1889).
- the user data quality reference units 103b and 123b directly connect the user data quality management units 103a and 123a with the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c, respectively, and perform the user data quality management necessary for the above-described processing in the communication schedule determination unit.
- An information transmission path enabling information to be transmitted from the user data quality management units 103a and 123a to the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c, a storage area for storing user data quality management information, or a user—using data quality management information.
- Formulation ⁇ Can be composed of processing units that can perform judgment processing, etc.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c formulate, determine, and negotiate a data transmission schedule based on the user data quality management information and the like.
- the data transmission schedule includes information such as the transmission rate 'modulation method' and the intermittent period. Specifically, the following processing described in the first embodiment is performed.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c determine the data transmission speed at which data is transmitted from the base station 121a to the wireless communication terminal 101 based on any of the user data quality management information at the start of streaming, and Buffering (storage) in the reception buffer 105 of the wireless communication terminal 101 in advance between the start and the start of playback ) Is calculated.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c make a request for securing a transmission band to the communication means control unit 108 in steps 509 and 604, and execute the first control procedure in step 606.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c monitor the traffic between the wireless communication terminal 101 and the base station 121a from the communication means control units 108 and 128 in step 803, and determine whether the session has been interrupted.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c formulate, determine, and negotiate the transmission schedule for the entire station based on the user data quality management information in steps 805 to 807. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 14, between the communication schedule judging units i03c and 123c, the start of the second control procedure (second negotiation procedure) in steps 807 and 902 causes information FI such as a new intermittent cycle to be transmitted. 2 is sent and received.
- step 804 the transition to the new intermittent communication state is triggered both by the application of the user data quality management units 103a and 123a and by the data link layer of the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c. There is.
- the user data quality management units 103a and 123a detect an increase in the transmission error rate based on the reception error information QoS of the application information FI1
- the user data quality management units 103a and 123a report this to the user data quality reference units 103b and i 23b.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c To the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c which have been notified of the increase in the error rate, use the notification as a trigger to set the maximum intermittent idle period within the possible range with the modulation method M, as in the procedure of Fig. 10. Try to formulate a transmission schedule to have. When the error rate rises, an attempt will be made to shift to the modulation scheme M, which has higher error tolerance.However, if the error tolerance is high, the transmission speed generally decreases, so the intermittent communication pause period cannot be as long as before. Sometimes. In this case, the communication schedule determination unit determines the negotiation procedure (Fig. 8 Similarly to FIG. 9, FIG. 13 and FIG. 13), negotiation with the communication schedule determination unit of the communication partner can be started to propose the use of the newly formulated transmission schedule.
- the negotiation process (FIGS. 8, 9, and 13) similar to that of the embodiment is started.
- the negotiation process of the transmission schedule is a negotiation process related to communication between stations, and is performed by exchanging information related to control in the data link layer between the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c. Therefore, such control information may depend on the specifications of the data link layer.
- the transmission rate can be determined by setting a data link connection, and the exchanged control information is based on a new intermittent cycle P and the cycle P. It is the time to start communication, but different information may be exchanged if other communication methods are used, such as 802.11, 802. lie, and third-generation mobile phones.
- the method of judgment communication schedule judgment units 103c and 123c of acquiring user data quality management information can be obtained via a user data quality information reference unit. There are two methods: direct acquisition and indirect acquisition of the user's data quality management information rather than acquisition.
- the communication schedule determination is performed by the user data quality information reference means, and the user data quality management information pertaining to all user data traffic is transmitted from the user data quality control means.
- the communication schedule determination means that has acquired the user data quality management information
- the communication schedule determination means uses this determination method when formulating candidate communication schedules and when determining the suitability of the transmission schedule proposed by the communication partner in the negotiation procedure.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c present the transmission schedule to the user data quality information reference units 103b and 123b, and request determination of the suitability of the transmission schedule.
- the requested user data quality information reference units 103b and 123b acquire the user data quality management information pertaining to the user data traffic from the user data quality information management units 103a and 123a.
- the suitability of the schedule is determined by the determination method shown in 2, and only the determination result is returned to the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c.
- the user data quality information reference section 103b, 123b sends the individual user traffic or the total user traffic added to the communication schedule judgment sections 103c, 123c to the transmission schedule judged to be non-conforming.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c will again present the transmission schedule to the user-to-data quality information reference units 103b and 123b based on the discrepancy (difference).
- the acquisition of user data quality information via the user data quality reference unit by the communication schedule judgment unit is performed as necessary. For example, at the same time that the user data quality management unit described above gives the communication schedule determination unit a transition process to a new intermittent communication state via the user data quality reference unit, the user data quality information is simultaneously Can be given. In addition to this, it is also possible to periodically provide user data quality information from the user data quality management unit to the communication schedule determination unit. In addition, the communication schedule determination unit determines the communication schedule of the communication partner. When the Joule determination unit proposes to use a new transmission schedule, if the user data quality information required for the determination is not possessed or the information is determined to be old, the user data quality information Acquisition can also be performed via the reference unit.
- the wireless communication units 110 and 130 which are physical means of communication, correspond to the physical layer of the 0SI7 layer model, manage communication between stations, and provide the inter-station communication units 1089 and 1289 that provide transmission services between two devices. It corresponds to the data link layer of the layer model.
- the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c that make this determination constitute a part of the function of the data link layer. .
- the multimedia data receiving / playing unit 104 and the multimedia data transmitting unit 124 perform application processing of the multimedia data.
- the application here, meaning of the transport layer or higher
- the application is used. ).
- the user data quality management units 103a and 123a manage the quality of data transmitted or received by the application, and thus correspond to the application.
- FIG. 14 does not show functional blocks corresponding to the network layer.
- the provision of the user-to-data quality reference units 103b and 123b allows the communication schedule determination units 103c and 123c to determine and determine the data transmission schedule for intermittent communication. Because user data quality management information can be obtained or used directly or indirectly from the user data quality management units 103a and 123a. In addition, the intermittent period can be changed without causing overflow or underflow in the receiving buffer even during streaming playback. Therefore, power supply to the wireless communication unit during stream reproduction can be stopped, and power consumption can be effectively reduced.
- the first and second prior arts do not have an information transmission path for transmitting the user data quality management information from the upper layer to the temporary link layer in the 0SI7 layer model.
- the reason is that in the 0SI7 layer model, the lower layer aims to provide services independent of the upper layer. Therefore, the first and second prior arts do not have means for acquiring the application information FI1 in a configuration below the data link layer.
- the power supply control unit 11 lb is also provided on the base station side, so that it is possible to reduce power consumption due to intermittent communication on the base station side.
- the base station side is not limited to base station 121a, and the transmitting device can obtain such effects.
- a program for enabling each terminal (receiving device) and base station (transmitting device) to execute each process in the wireless transmission / reception system described in the first and second embodiments described above uses a storage medium as a terminal. By installing it on the (receiving device) and the base station (transmitting device), power consumption can be reduced by a simple procedure.
- the installation method is not limited, it can be easily performed by recording the program on a recording medium and installing the program on a terminal (receiving apparatus) or a base station (transmitting apparatus) via the recording medium.
- the recording medium is not limited, and for example, a semiconductor memory or a rotary reading type (MD, CD, magnetic disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.) can be easily used.
- the coding method used by the transmission service is CBR (fixed rate coding). If the transmission rate of MPEG-2 TS is known in advance, the data rate of multimedia data (contents) will be constant, and data characteristics will be obtained prior to the start of transmission. . In addition, it uses the constant-speed communication function provided by the communication system used, and if the model of the wireless communication terminal (receiving device) is known in some way, the reception buffer that can be used at a certain time is used. It may be possible to determine the quantity.
- CBR fixed rate coding
- the Hint Track defined by Apple Computer's Quick Time File Format provides recommended information on the packet size in each burst of RTP, and it is possible to determine the transmission amount in each intermittent cycle based on this information. it can. Conversely, it is also possible to use the Hint Track information to calculate the speed information of the multimedia data corresponding to FIG. 4 of the first embodiment.
- the key frame animation is used to show an example of the data characteristics.
- the transmission rate increases with time, such as MPEG-2 PS of VBR (Variable Rate Coding).
- the present invention can be applied to multimedia data having continuously changing characteristics by using an appropriate data characteristic expression.
- the terminal informs the base station of the available reception buffer capacity to the base station by appropriate means before acquiring the session information. Then, by examining the target multimedia data, the base station creates in advance one or more possible intermittent communication schedule information according to the transmitted reception buffer capacity and the assumed transmission environment. This information can be expressed in the same manner as in the first embodiment, and the base station returns this information to the terminal as a data characteristic that becomes part of the session information. afterwards Can be processed in the same manner as in the first embodiment.
- the I picture and the P picture are referred to when decoding the B picture, so the B picture can be released after the decoding is completed.
- the P picture cannot be released from the buffer immediately after its own decoding is completed.
- the capacity of a B picture is smaller than that of an I picture or P picture, and for the sake of simplicity, each time a new I picture (or P picture) appears, it is no longer referenced from any B picture and is truly used. Previous I picture (or P picture
- the average size of the data that must stay in the buffer for each minute time is smaller than the entire size of the buffer, the total data that is used up to a certain elapsed time in the data characteristics The amount can be ignored. In this case, it may be effective to reduce the amount of buffering at the start of the session to prevent overflow.
- the data characteristic of the present invention is a fundamental feature that the total amount of data required by a certain elapsed time and the total amount of data used by a certain time can be known.
- This data transmission characteristic is the transmission schedule information from which neither overflow nor underflow occurs on the receiving side.
- the data characteristic can be used in the calculation process. If the approximation is used in the calculation process, the format of the data characteristic may be a corresponding approximation format.
- HiSWANa is used as the communication means
- the transmission band between the wireless communication terminal and the base station can be specified to some extent.
- wireless communication protocols such as IEEE802.11e (draft is under review as of July 2002) and data communication of third-generation mobile phones have a QoS guarantee function. These protocols also have an intermittent communication function similar to HiSWANa, and the present invention can be applied.
- the present invention can be applied to wireless communication protocols that are widely distributed but do not have a QoS function, such as IEEE802.11.
- the intermittent period is decreased as well as increased using the second control procedure, so that adaptive The intermittent period can be adjusted so that underflow or overflow does not occur even when a significant change is made.
- reception and reproduction of multimedia data can be performed using a wireless communication terminal that is often portable and has a small installed memory capacity.
- a wireless communication terminal that is often portable and has a small installed memory capacity.
- the data communication apparatus according to the present invention, the intermittent communication method, the program for describing the method, and the recording medium for recording the program are as short as possible in streaming, in which multimedia data is received and played back in parallel. It is suitable for portable wireless devices and base stations, etc., to reduce power consumption by transitioning to a long-term intermittent communication state.
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