COMMUNICATION CONTROLLER AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for realizing stable distribution of streaming data by maintaining the quality of a communication flow and in particular, preferentially securing a band for the streaming distribution.

SOLUTION: Communication flow control processing between an apparatus connected to a wide area network and an apparatus connected to a local network acquires a desirable operating band for each communication flow via a communication control apparatus and executes band assignment processing on the basis of the desirable operating bands. Since the band assignment to a preferential flow is configured particularly to set bands including also operating bands of non-preferential flows as assignment objects, it is made possible to preferentially assign broader bands for the streaming distribution flow so as to attain stable distribution of the streaming data and stable viewing of the data.

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