WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC-BALANCED COMMUNICATION SIMULTANEOUSLY OVER TWO WIRELESS NETWORKS

摘要

A wireless communication apparatus (10) determines the ratio of network sockets which shall be allocated to a first wireless interface using a first communication network, such as WiFi 802.11, and sockets which shall be allocated to a second wireless interface using a second communication network, such as a mobile communications network, on the basis of the radio quality of the first communication network and the radio quality of the second communication network. The wireless communication apparatus (10) generates the network sockets in accordance with the determined ratio and performs wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus (10) measures the amount of traffic through the first wireless interface and the amount of traffic through the second wireless interface in the wireless communication using the sockets which have been generated. The wireless communication apparatus (10) corrects the number of sockets allocated to the first wireless interface and the second wireless interface on the basis of the measured amounts of traffic, so as to adapt the ratio of sockets to the ratio of traffic throughput.