COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

FIELD: communication.SUBSTANCE: invention relates to communication. Instead of causing a control apparatus to grasp and analyze a communication amount per processing rule of a communication apparatus, the communication apparatus executes a detailed control operation based on the communication amount. Communication apparatus comprises: packet processing unit that processes an incoming packet based on a processing rule corresponding to the incoming packet among a plurality of processing rules set from a control apparatus; statistical value measurement unit that measures a statistical value obtained from a processing amount corresponding to each of the plurality of processing rules; and a processing rule management unit that determines whether or not each of the processing rules is effective based on the statistical value.EFFECT: technical result consists in improved flexibility of data flow control.13 cl, 19 dwg