APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PACKETS THROUGH MULTI-HOMING BASED NETWORK

摘要

The present disclosure relates to a communication path control technology, and more specifically, to technology for selecting a network and scheduling packets for multi-homing based transmission. The objective of the present disclosure is to reduce a packet loss by determining the number of packets to be transmitted based on the degree of congestion on each network path for a multi-homing based transmission technology. A packet transmission apparatus selects a network path to be used to transmit a packet based on congestion information, which is calculated based on state information of each network path, and then allocates the number of packets to be transmitted and sequence numbers of the packets to the selected network path.

主权项

1. A packet transmission apparatus for transmitting a packet using multi-homing based network paths, the packet transmission apparatus comprising:
a congestion information calculator configured to calculate congestion information of each of a plurality of network paths based on state information of each network path; a path selector configured to select a network path to be used for packet transmission based on the calculated congestion information; and a packet allocator configured to allocate, to the selected network path, the number of packets to be transmitted through the selected network path and sequence numbers of the packets.