Network management method, apparatus of same, and network systems

摘要

A network management method for performing communication between any nodes in a network wherein a plurality of nodes are connected, where a connection request having at least a logical node name of the destination of connection is successively propagated to a node having a possibility of active connection with the node of the destination of connection based on information on nodes in the vicinity of that node stored in each node; a route for substantially connecting desired nodes is searched for; and the nodes are made to substantially connect and communication between the nodes is made to be performed.