WO2014207978A1 - 送信装置、受信装置および中継装置 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a transmission device, a reception device, and a relay device that transmit and receive real-time media data with low delay and high quality using a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connection.
- TCP Transmission Control Protocol
- IP telephones that transmit and receive voice data using an IP (Internet Protocol) network are widespread. With the spread of the Internet and the mobile Internet and the speeding up of their communication, IP telephones via the Internet and the mobile Internet whose quality is not guaranteed are also used.
- IP Internet Protocol
- UDP When using UDP, it is not guaranteed that the data will reach the other party. Instead, low-delay data transmission is realized. Therefore, UDP is used for multimedia communication that requires real-time performance. However, the data transfer by UDP has a drawback that it cannot pass through NAT (Network Address Translation) or a firewall.
- NAT Network Address Translation
- NAT is a technology used to connect a terminal that does not have a global IP address to the Internet.
- a device outside the NAT cannot know the IP address of the terminal inside the NAT. For this reason, a device outside the NAT cannot send data directly to a terminal inside the NAT by UDP.
- many firewalls prevent external UDP communication from passing inside to prevent communication network attacks from the outside.
- the terminal used is often located inside a NAT or firewall, so some IP phone services for the Internet send voice data using TCP that can easily cross NAT and firewall. To do.
- Patent Document 1 describes a technique for performing data communication with low delay using TCP.
- the communication device described in Patent Document 1 realizes low-latency data communication using TCP by adopting the following configuration.
- the communication device described in Patent Document 1 realizes a voice call with a low delay by treating a packet that arrives late due to a packet loss as a lost packet. Since the audio data for the packet treated as a lost packet is not used on the receiving side, the audio data reproduced by the receiving apparatus is deteriorated compared to the data before transmission.
- the receiving apparatus includes a data combining unit that combines the received divided data, a network state monitoring unit that monitors the state of the communication network, and the divided data according to the state of the communication network that is a monitoring result of the network state monitoring unit. And a receiving method determining means for changing the method of combining the divided data.
- FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a configuration example of a first embodiment of a media communication system including a transmission device and a reception device according to the present invention.
- the transmitting device 100 is connected to the receiving device 200 via the IP network 300 so as to be communicable.
- the transmission device 100 is an information processing device that transmits multimedia data 500 to the reception device 200 via the IP network 300.
- the transmission device 100 includes a central processing unit (CPU; Central Processing Unit) (not shown), a storage device (not shown) such as a memory and an HDD (Hard Disk Drive).
- the transmission device 100 is configured to realize functions to be described later when executing a program stored in the storage device. With this configuration, the transmission device 100 realizes multimedia data communication.
- the receiving device 200 is connected to the transmitting device 100 via the IP network 300.
- the receiving device 200 includes a central processing unit (CPU) (not shown) and a storage device (not shown) such as a memory and an HDD.
- the receiving device 200 is configured to realize functions to be described later when executing a program stored in the storage device. With this configuration, the receiving device 200 realizes reception and reproduction of multimedia data.
- the multimedia data 500 transmitted by the transmission device 100 may be a multimedia file stored in an external storage medium or a storage device managed by another device.
- the multimedia data 500 may be multimedia data acquired in real time from a microphone or a camera.
- multimedia data 500 that is audio data input from a microphone in real time is transmitted from the transmission device 100 to the reception device 200 with as low delay as possible and with high quality. Yes.
- the media communication system transmits not only the audio data input from the microphone but also the video data input in real time from the camera, both the video data and the audio data from another device instead of the microphone or the camera.
- the present invention is applicable to any service that transmits multimedia data such as recorded audio data and video data, or multimedia data stored in a storage device.
- a mobile network such as a third generation mobile network (3G), an HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) network, or an LTE (Long Term Evolution) network is used for the wireless communication. Is done.
- a wireless LAN Local Area Network
- Wi-Fi registered trademark
- the transmission device 100 and the reception device 200 may be communicably connected by any wireless communication capable of performing communication in conformity with IP.
- FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a communication form between the transmission device 100 and the reception device 200.
- direct UDP communication or TCP communication is performed between the transmission device 100 and the reception device 200 as in “1. Direct UDP” and “2. Direct TCP” illustrated in FIG. 2, the relay device 600 is not necessary. .
- the transmission device 100 or the reception device 200 exists in the NAT or the firewall, a device outside the NAT or the firewall often cannot directly perform UDP communication.
- a device outside the NAT or the firewall often cannot directly perform UDP communication.
- the intermediate relay device 600 and the transmission device 100 are connected to be communicable with each other through a TCP connection, and the relay device 600 and the reception device 200 are connected. You may connect so that communication is possible by UDP.
- a relay device 600 that relays a TCP connection between the transmission device 100 and the reception device 200 may be provided as in “4. Double-sided TCP” illustrated in FIG. Further, as in “5. Multi-stage TCP” illustrated in FIG. 2, two or more relay devices may exist between the transmission device 100 and the reception device 200.
- the relay device 600 has at least the function of the receiving device 200 described in detail below, and transmits the combined data to the receiving device.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the first embodiment of the transmission device 100 and the reception device 200.
- n means a natural number.
- the receiving apparatus 200 shown in FIG. 3 includes receiving means 2011 to 201n, data synthesizing means 202, reproducing means 203, receiving side connection management means 204, receiving side network state monitoring means 205, receiving method determining means 206, including.
- Media input means 101 has a function of inputting media signals.
- the encoding unit 102 has a function of encoding the media signal input by the media input unit 101 using a specific encoding method.
- the data dividing unit 103 has a function of dividing the media signal encoded by the encoding unit 102 for each set data amount.
- the data distribution unit 104 has a function of distributing the data divided by the data division unit 103 to an appropriate transmission unit among the transmission units 1051 to 105n.
- the transmission means 1051 to 105n have a function of transmitting the data distributed from the data distribution means 104 to the reception means 2011 to 201n via the TCP connections 3011 to 301n.
- the transmission side network state monitoring unit 107 has a function of estimating or predicting a current communication network state or a near future communication network state based on information of the transmission side connection management unit 106 or information of a unit that notifies the communication network state. Have.
- the basic method for estimating the communication network state used by the transmission-side network state monitoring unit 107 includes, for example, packet loss rate by continuously transmitting and receiving pings using ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) packets. And there are methods that can measure packet arrival delay.
- ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
- the method for estimating or predicting the communication network state includes the frequency band currently available by continuously transmitting a plurality of packets described in Patent Document 2 and measuring the reception time.
- An estimation method or a method of estimating a packet loss rate from a probability model described in Patent Document 3 may be used.
- the method of using pathChirp described in the nonpatent literature 1 may be used.
- the communication network state estimated or predicted by the transmission-side network state monitoring unit 107 is, for example, a packet loss rate.
- the packet loss rate is, for example, when the transmission side network state monitoring unit 107 can estimate the usable bandwidth by the method described in Patent Document 2 or Non-Patent Document 1, and observes the temporal variation of the usable bandwidth, When the available bandwidth decreases, it is predicted by determining that there is a high possibility that a packet loss has occurred than usual.
- the transmission-side network state monitoring unit 107 estimates or predicts the packet loss rate, but the packet loss rate, the packet arrival delay, and the available bandwidth are closely related. That is, the transmission-side network state monitoring unit 107 can predict that the packet loss rate will increase if the packet arrival delay increases, or that the packet loss rate will increase if the available bandwidth decreases. Therefore, the transmission-side network state monitoring unit 107 may estimate or predict the packet arrival delay and the available bandwidth.
- the transmission method determination unit 108 has a function of determining an optimum data amount and an optimum number of connections for dividing data based on the communication network state estimated or predicted by the transmission side network state monitoring unit 107.
- the transmission method determination unit 108 notifies the data division unit 103, the data distribution unit 104, and the transmission side connection management unit 106 of the determined content.
- the transmission side connection management unit 106 disconnects the arbitrary transmission unit 105m.
- the data distribution unit 104 operates to distribute data to a new transmission unit after the number of connections is changed.
- the receiving units 2011 to 201n have a function of receiving data packets transmitted from the transmitting units 1051 to 105n of the transmitting apparatus 100.
- the data synthesizing unit 202 has a function of reconfiguring and combining data packets received by a plurality of receiving units.
- the reproduction unit 203 has a function of reproducing the media data decrypted by the data synthesis unit 202.
- the receiving-side network state monitoring unit 205 has a function of estimating or predicting a current communication network state or a near-future communication network state based on information of the receiving-side connection management unit 204 or information of a unit that notifies the communication network state. Have.
- the data synthesis unit 202 changes the determination time when determining whether or not to treat the packet that has arrived at the time of data synthesis as a lost packet.
- the receiving side connection management unit 204 disconnects the arbitrary receiving unit 201m.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the media data transmission process of the transmission apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment.
- the transmission device 100 transmits audio data input from the microphone to the reception device 200.
- the media input unit 101 of the transmission device 100 inputs audio data for a processing unit from a microphone (step S001).
- the processing unit of audio data is not particularly defined.
- the encoding means 102 encodes the audio data input from the microphone by a predetermined method (step S002).
- the encoding method used by the encoding means 102 is arbitrary, and may be a method using PCM data as it is.
- the encoding method used by the encoding means 102 is the G.264 standard defined by ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector). 711 and G.G. 729, 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) AMR (Adaptive Multi Rate) and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) AAC (Advanced Coding), etc.
- the encoding means 102 is G. Assume that the audio data is encoded at 711. In this case, 160-byte PCM data every 10 milliseconds is converted into an 80-byte G.P. It is encoded into a 711 stream.
- the data dividing means 103 performs the encoded G.D.
- the 711 stream is grouped into packet units to be transmitted (step S003).
- the transmission apparatus 100 may transmit 10 milliseconds of data as a packet as it is. Further, the transmission device 100 may transmit several 10 millisecond data packets together.
- data is grouped into one packet.
- the packets are transmitted without being collected, there is an advantage that the waiting time for packet creation is small on the receiving apparatus 200 side.
- the load of transmission / reception increases and the ratio of packet headers increases, there is a drawback that the load on the communication network increases.
- the data distribution unit 104 distributes a packet generated by collecting encoded data to a plurality of transmission units.
- the transmission means transmits the distributed packet (step S004).
- the data distribution unit 104 sends the first packet to the transmission unit 1051, the second packet to the transmission unit 1052, the nth packet to the transmission unit 105n, the (n + 1) th packet to the transmission unit 1051, etc.
- transmission means may be assigned in order for each packet.
- the data distribution unit 104 may monitor the state of each transmission unit, and may prioritize transmission units with a small transmission delay.
- the receiving apparatus 200 can also reconstruct the packets by receiving the packets in order.
- the transmission packet may have time stamp information so that the packet is reconstructed on the reception side. Desired.
- the transmission device 100 repeats the transmission process for the input voice data.
- the transmission device 100 ends the media data transmission process.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the media data reproduction process of the first embodiment of the receiving apparatus 200.
- the receiving device 200 reproduces audio data input from the microphone transmitted from the transmitting device 100.
- the receiving means of the receiving device 200 receives the arrived data packet (step S101).
- the data synthesizing unit 202 determines from the arrival time of the arrived packet whether the packet is in time for the allowable delay time or arrived late (step S102).
- the data synthesizing unit 202 determines that the sound data 1 second after the first sound data (after 1000 milliseconds) is within 1.1 seconds from the timing when the reproduction is started. If it arrives (within 1100 milliseconds), it is determined that the allowable delay time has been met. If the audio data has not arrived within 1.1 seconds from the reproduction start timing, the data synthesizing unit 202 determines that the arrival of the packet is too late.
- Packets stored in the buffer are read in order according to the time stamp (step S105).
- the data synthesizing unit 202 may divide and process, for example, a packet generated in units of 60 milliseconds into packet data in units necessary for reproduction.
- a unit necessary for reproduction is, for example, a unit of 10 milliseconds.
- the data synthesis means 202 decodes the packet read from the buffer (step S106).
- the data synthesizing means 202 is, for example, G.
- the packet encoded in 711 is decoded into PCM data.
- the data synthesizing unit 202 may insert the 10-millisecond PCM data in which the data is 0 at a place where the packet is missing, with the discarded packet as silence.
- the data synthesizing means 202 is the G.
- PLC Packet Loss Concealment
- the reproduction unit 203 reproduces the audio data decoded by the data synthesis unit 202 and interpolated by the PLC (step S107). Thereafter, the data synthesizing unit 202 reads the packets stored in the buffer and repeats the synthesizing process. When there are no more packets stored in the buffer, the receiving apparatus 200 ends the reproduction process.
- FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the state of packet communication when one TCP connection is used.
- FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of the state of packet communication when one TCP connection is used.
- an application for performing data communication processing from the media input unit 101 to the transmission unit 1051 described as “transmission application” operates.
- a transmission application which is an application on the OS (Operating System), writes packet data to be transmitted to the socket buffer.
- Socket communication is implemented in the OS library and kernel.
- the packet data written to the buffer is transmitted to the IP network 300 at a timing independent of the application writing to the socket buffer.
- the procedure until the audio data is reproduced is as follows. First, the reception socket receives the packet data received from the IP network 300, and the reception socket writes the packet data to the reception buffer. When the receiving socket writes packet data to the receiving buffer, an event such as an interrupt occurs for the receiving application. In response to the event that has occurred, the receiving application receives the packet data from the reception buffer and performs a reproduction process.
- FIG. 7 shows an example in which a packet loss occurs in the middle and packet 2 does not reach the receiving device 200. Transmitting apparatus 100 transmits packets in the order of packet 1, packet 2, packet 3,. However, since packet 2 is lost, packet 3 arrives at receiving apparatus 200 after packet 1 is received.
- the transmission device 100 sorts the packets so that the transmission unit 1051 is used to transmit the odd numbered packets and the transmission unit 1052 is used to transmit the even numbered packets.
- the receiving unit 2011 receives odd-numbered packets.
- the receiving unit 2012 receives even-numbered packets.
- the packets transmitted by the transmission unit 1051 and the transmission unit 1052 are received by the reception unit 2011 and the reception unit 2012 without delay.
- Packets received by the receiving unit 2011 and the receiving unit 2012 are transferred to the data combining unit 202.
- the data synthesizing unit 202 reconstructs the passed packets in the order of packets.
- the reproduction unit 203 reproduces the reconstructed sound.
- the transmission device 100 distributes odd-numbered packets and even-numbered packets to the transmission unit 1051 and the transmission unit 1052 using two TCP connections.
- the data synthesis means 202 treats a packet that does not reach within the allowable delay time as a lost packet. In the example shown in FIG. 9, it is set so that a packet whose arrival is delayed by one packet is treated as a lost packet. Therefore, the data synthesizing unit 202 performs the data synthesizing process in order from the arrived packet, and treats the packet 2, the packet 4, and the packet 6 that do not reach within the allowable delay time as loss packets. The data synthesizing unit 202 makes the lost packet inconspicuous by the PLC during the synthesis.
- the reproducing unit 203 reproduces the data synthesized as described above.
- the media communication system uses a plurality of TCP connections, and even if a delay occurs in arrival of a packet of a specific TCP connection, the delayed packet is regarded as a lost packet.
- the media communication system can prevent deterioration in sound quality.
- the data synthesizing unit 202 synthesizes data using a packet that arrives later than the allowable delay time as a lost packet.
- the allowable delay time is set to about 100 milliseconds until the packet loss rate is about 1%, and when the packet loss rate is 10%, the allowable delay time is the IP phone delay time set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. This is a method of increasing the limit to 400 milliseconds.
- the number of TCP connections is about 2 when the packet loss rate is about 1%, and the number of TCP connections is increased to about 5 as the packet loss increases.
- the data division interval is distributed by sending the voice data to each TCP connection every 10 milliseconds, or the voice data is sent every 60 milliseconds together. This parameter determines whether to distribute to TCP connections.
- the data division interval may be arbitrary because the delay due to the packet loss is small. In this case, if the division interval is increased within the allowable range of delay, the number of packet losses decreases, and the deterioration of sound quality tends to be inconspicuous.
- the method of determining the number of TCP connections, the data division interval, and the allowable delay time in the data combining unit 202 from the occurrence of packet loss has been described. May measure the packet loss rate and determine the number of TCP connections, the data division interval, and the allowable delay time.
- the receiving means of the receiving apparatus 200 observes the arrival delay of packets and the number of simultaneously arriving packets, and detects the situation of arrival delay and the arrival of packets that should arrive at a predetermined interval at the same time. It may be estimated that has occurred.
- FIG. 10 is a system configuration diagram showing the configuration of the system used for evaluating the effect of the media communication system of the present embodiment.
- the transmission device 100 reads data from the multimedia data storage unit 400. Then, the transmission device 100 transmits the read data to the reception device 200 via the network emulator 302.
- the data stored in the multimedia data storage unit 400 is ITU-T P.264. 501 “Test signals for use in telephony”, audio sequence of 2 men and women in 11 languages, totaling 44 samples, 6 minutes and 43 seconds of speech data was sampled at 8 kHz, and ITU-T G . 711 Data encoded in ⁇ -law.
- the encoded multimedia data is audio data of 64 kbps.
- the transmission device 100 transmits data to the reception device 200 while periodically reading the data from the multimedia data storage unit 400.
- the transmitting apparatus 100 transmits data while changing the reading time interval in five patterns of 10 milliseconds, 20 milliseconds, 30 milliseconds, 40 milliseconds, and 60 milliseconds. This corresponds to the transmission apparatus 100 transmitting multimedia data while dividing it into 80 bytes, 160 bytes, 240 bytes, 320 bytes, and 480 bytes, respectively.
- the transmission device 100 and the reception device 200 are connected by a TCP connection.
- the transmission device 100 transmits data while changing the number of TCP connections from 1 to 5.
- the receiving apparatus 200 reconfigures multimedia data while changing the allowable delay time of data packets received from one or more TCP connections.
- the receiving apparatus 200 stores the reconstructed data in the multimedia data storage unit 401.
- the receiving apparatus 200 changes the allowable delay time to 100 milliseconds, 200 milliseconds, and 400 milliseconds.
- the pre-transmission data stored in the multimedia data storage unit 400 and the reconstructed data stored in the multimedia data storage unit 401 are each decoded into PCM data, and the ITU-T P. 862 “Perceptual evaluation of speed quality (PESQ): An objective method for end-to-end speed quality of performance-bandwidth-band quality”.
- the network emulator 302 changes the packet loss rate and the communication network delay time. By changing, the influence of the change in the communication network state on the sound quality (PESQ evaluation value) of the reconfigured multimedia data is measured.
- the network emulator 302 changed the packet loss rate from 0.1% to 10% and the communication network delay time to 20 milliseconds, 100 milliseconds, and 400 milliseconds.
- FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the packet loss rate and the average PESQ evaluation value as a graph for each packet transmission interval.
- the horizontal axis represents the packet loss rate (%), and the vertical axis represents the average PESQ value.
- “10” represents the relationship between the packet loss rate and the average PESQ evaluation value when the packet transmission interval is 10 milliseconds.
- “20” to “60” respectively represent the relationship between the packet loss rate and the average PESQ evaluation value when the packet transmission interval is 20 milliseconds to 60 milliseconds.
- the voice data input by the data dividing unit 103 is divided, and the data is distributed by the data distribution unit 104 to each of the transmission units 1051 to 105n.
- the data is transmitted.
- the voice data is distributed to all the transmission means 1051 to 105n at the same time.
- the method of transmitting the same data using two TCP connections at the same time is used.
- the same data is sent at a time difference, and the same data is not sent to all the TCP connections.
- a method such as sending only one or a plurality of TCP connections, or sending redundant data obtained by matrix operation instead of sending a copy of data.
- FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing an outline of a transmission apparatus according to the present invention.
- the transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes a data distribution unit 1 (for example, the data distribution unit 104) that distributes divided data to one or a plurality of TCP connections, and a network state monitoring unit 2 that monitors the state of the communication network ( For example, the transmission side network state monitoring unit 107) and the transmission method determining unit 3 (which changes the data division method and the divided data transmission method according to the state of the communication network which is the monitoring result of the network state monitoring unit 2) For example, a transmission method determining means 108) is provided.
- a data distribution unit 1 for example, the data distribution unit 104 that distributes divided data to one or a plurality of TCP connections
- a network state monitoring unit 2 that monitors the state of the communication network
- the transmission side network state monitoring unit 107 and the transmission method determining unit 3 which changes the data division method and the divided data transmission method according to the state of the communication network which is the monitoring result of the network state monitoring unit 2
- the transmission device can reduce the number of lost packets and shorten the time until packet retransmission.
- the data distribution unit 1 may distribute the divided data to a plurality of TCP connections, and the transmission method determination unit 3 may be configured to change the number of TCP connections based on the state of the communication network.
- the transmission apparatus can reduce data handled as a lost packet due to retransmission delay.
- the data distribution means 1 may be configured to distribute redundant data calculated from a plurality of packets to TCP connections.
- FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing an outline of a receiving apparatus according to the present invention.
- the receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes a data synthesizing unit 11 (for example, data synthesizing unit 202) that synthesizes the received divided data, and a network state monitoring unit 12 (for example, receiving-side network state monitoring unit 205) that monitors the state of the communication network. ) And a reception method determination unit 13 (for example, reception method determination unit 206) that changes the reception method of the divided data and the combination method of the divided data according to the state of the communication network that is the monitoring result of the network state monitoring unit 12. Prepare.
- a data synthesizing unit 11 for example, data synthesizing unit 202
- a network state monitoring unit 12 for example, receiving-side network state monitoring unit 205
- reception method determination unit 13 for example, reception method determination unit 206 that changes the reception method of the divided data and the combination method of the divided data according to the state of the communication network that is the monitoring result of the network state monitoring unit 12.
- the receiving apparatus can realize a voice call with low delay and can prevent deterioration of voice data.
- the data synthesizing unit 11 treats the divided data that could not be received within a predetermined delay time as lost data, and the reception method determining unit 13 is configured to change the predetermined delay time based on the state of the communication network. May be.
- the receiving apparatus can control the allowable delay time so as not to cause packet loss as much as possible.
- the reception method determination means 13 may be configured to change the number of TCP connections based on the state of the communication network.
- the data synthesis means 11 may be configured to perform data interpolation on the divided data treated as loss data.
- the receiving apparatus can make loss packets inconspicuous and prevent deterioration in sound quality.
- the data synthesizing unit 11 may be configured to discard the divided data other than the received one divided data when receiving a plurality of the same divided data.
- the data synthesizing means 11 may synthesize data by generating divided data treated as lost data from the received redundant data.
- FIG. 18 is a block diagram showing an outline of the relay device according to the present invention.
- the relay apparatus according to the present invention includes a data combining unit 21 (for example, data combining unit 202) that combines the received divided data, and a network state monitoring unit 22 (for example, receiving-side network state monitoring unit 205) that monitors the state of the communication network. ) And a reception method determination unit 23 (for example, reception method determination unit 206) that changes the reception method of the divided data and the synthesis method of the divided data according to the state of the communication network that is the monitoring result of the network state monitoring unit 22. Prepare.
- the relay device includes, for example, receiving means that uses UDP.
- the present invention is applied to a communication device that communicates multimedia data such as audio and video from a transmission device to a reception device with low delay and high quality.
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以下、本発明の第1の実施形態を図面を参照して説明する。図1は、本発明による送信装置および受信装置を含むメディア通信システムの第1の実施形態の構成例を示すシステム構成図である。
次に、本発明の第2の実施形態を説明する。なお、本発明の第2の実施形態におけるメディア通信システム10の構成例は、第1の実施形態における説明と同様であるため説明を省略する。
2 ネットワーク状態監視手段
3 送信方法決定手段
11、21 データ合成手段
12、22 ネットワーク状態監視手段
13、23 受信方法決定手段
10 メディア通信システム
100 送信装置
108 送信方法決定手段
107 送信側ネットワーク状態監視手段
200 受信装置
206 受信方法決定手段
205 受信側ネットワーク状態監視手段
101 メディア入力手段
102 符号化手段
103 データ分割手段
104 データ振分手段
1051、1052、105m、105n 送信手段
106 送信側コネクション管理手段
2011、2012、201m、201n 受信手段
202 データ合成手段
203 再生手段
204 受信側コネクション管理手段
300 IPネットワーク
3011、3012、301m、301n TCPコネクション
302 ネットワークエミュレータ
400、401 マルチメディアデータ記憶部
500 マルチメディアデータ
600、601 中継装置
Claims (10)
- 送信対象のデータを分割して受信装置に送信する送信装置であって、
分割されたデータを1つまたは複数のTCPコネクションに振り分けるデータ振分手段と、
通信ネットワークの状態を監視するネットワーク状態監視手段と、
前記ネットワーク状態監視手段の監視結果である前記通信ネットワークの状態に応じて前記データの分割方法および前記分割されたデータの送信方法を変更する送信方法決定手段とを備える
ことを特徴とする送信装置。 - 送信方法決定手段は、通信ネットワークの状態に基づいてデータを分割する単位を変更する
請求項1記載の送信装置。 - データ振分手段は、分割されたデータを複数のTCPコネクションに振り分け、
送信方法決定手段は、通信ネットワークの状態に基づいて前記TCPコネクションの数を変更する
請求項1または請求項2記載の送信装置。 - データ振分手段は、同じ分割されたデータを複数のTCPコネクションに振り分ける
請求項3記載の送信装置。 - データ振分手段は、複数パケットから計算した冗長データをTCPコネクションに振り分ける
請求項3または請求項4記載の送信装置。 - 送信対象のデータが分割されて1つまたは複数のTCPコネクションで送信装置から送信された分割データを受信する受信装置であって、
受信した分割データを合成するデータ合成手段と、
通信ネットワークの状態を監視するネットワーク状態監視手段と、
前記ネットワーク状態監視手段の監視結果である前記通信ネットワークの状態に応じて前記分割データの受信方法および前記分割データの合成方法を変更する受信方法決定手段とを備える
ことを特徴とする受信装置。 - データ合成手段は、所定の遅延時間内に受信できなかった分割データを損失データとして扱い、
受信方法決定手段は、通信ネットワークの状態に基づいて前記所定の遅延時間を変更する
請求項6記載の受信装置。 - 受信方法決定手段は、通信ネットワークの状態に基づいてTCPコネクションの数を変更する
請求項6または請求項7記載の受信装置。 - データ合成手段は、損失データとして扱った分割データに対してデータ補間を行う
請求項7記載の受信装置。 - 送信対象のデータが分割されて1つまたは複数のTCPコネクションで送信装置から送信された分割データを受信し、データを受信装置に送信する中継装置であって、
受信した分割データを合成するデータ合成手段と、
通信ネットワークの状態を監視するネットワーク状態監視手段と、
前記ネットワーク状態監視手段の監視結果である前記通信ネットワークの状態に応じて前記分割データの受信方法および前記分割データの合成方法を変更する受信方法決定手段とを備える
ことを特徴とする中継装置。
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