RELAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: SUGIMURA KAZUHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 05.09.2019
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

To achieve both a comfortable WAN communication environment and suppression in power consumption without time and effort.SOLUTION: A mobile router 10 comprises: a wireless WAN communication unit 11 that has a plurality of WAN connection modes with different communication speeds, and communicates with a WAN side; and a wireless LAN communication unit 12 that communicates with a LAN side. The mobile router 10 comprises: a relay communication amount monitoring unit 13 that monitors a relay communication amount between the wireless WAN communication unit 11 and the wireless LAN communication unit 12; and a relay learning unit 14 that learns a daily fluctuation pattern of the relay communication amount. The mobile router 10 comprises: a mode decision unit 15 that decides the WAN connection mode of the wireless WAN communication unit 11 on the basis of learning data of the relay learning unit 14; and a controller 16 that switches the WAN connection mode of the wireless WAN communication unit 11 to the decided WAN connection mode.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】快適なＷＡＮ通信環境と消費電力の抑制を手間なく両立する。【解決手段】モバイルルータ１０は、通信速度が異なる複数のＷＡＮ接続モードを有し、ＷＡＮ側と通信する無線ＷＡＮ通信部１１と、ＬＡＮ側と通信する無線ＬＡＮ通信部１２と、を備える。モバイルルータ１０は、無線ＷＡＮ通信部１１と無線ＬＡＮ通信部１２との間の中継通信量を監視する中継通信量監視部１３と、中継通信量の一日における変動パターンを学習する中継学習部１４と、を備える。モバイルルータ１０は、中継学習部１４の学習データに基づいて、無線ＷＡＮ通信部１１のＷＡＮ接続モードを決定するモード決定部１５と、無線ＷＡＮ通信部１１のＷＡＮ接続モードを決定したＷＡＮ接続モードに切り替える制御部１６と、を備える。【選択図】図１