Abstract: It is provided a dynamic association control apparatus comprising: an information acquisition part configured to acquire information related to an object relay node and to candidate base stations to be associated; a blocking probability calculation part configured to calculate respectively a candidate blocking probability in a case where the object relay node performs association with each of the candidate base stations to be associated according to the acquired information; and an association control part configured to select an object blocking probability from the calculated candidate blocking probabilities, and use a base station corresponding to the selected object blocking probability as an object base station to which the association is transferred, so that the object relay node changes to be associated with the object base station to which the association is transferred.

Abstract: It is provided are a server including: a storage module for storing original files and characteristics of the original files; an encoding module for encoding the original files stored in the storage module to generate encoded symbols; an information acquisition module for communicating with at least one transmission node and acquiring state information from the at least one transmission node; a control module for calculating a number of the encoded symbols to be sent to the at least one transmission node for caching based on the characteristics of the original files stored in the storage module and the state information of the at least one transmission node acquired by the information acquisition module; and a communication module for sending the encoded symbols to the at least one transmission node based on the number of the encoded symbols calculated by the control module.

Abstract: The base station includes: a determination unit for comparing states of traffic currently provided by the base station and other neighboring base stations and determining whether the base station has the lowest traffic; an information transmission unit for sending a sleep request and a handover request for handing over the user terminal associated with the base station to one of the neighboring base stations in case where the determination unit determines that the traffic currently provided by the base station is lowest; a receiving unit for receiving feedback information sent from the one of the neighboring base stations after admission control; and an executing unit for executing sleep decision after receiving handover request permitting information from the neighboring base station.

Abstract: It is provided a renewable energy base station, which is used in a wireless cellular system, including: an adjustment request determining part for determining whether an adjustment to a coverage area is required; an adjustment request transceiver in case where it is determined that the adjustment to the coverage area is required, sending a coverage area adjustment request to neighboring base stations in the wireless cellular system, and receiving an adjustment request response from the neighboring base stations; an adjustment request responding part for determining whether the coverage area adjustment request from the one of the neighboring base stations is allowed in case where receiving the coverage area adjustment request from one of the neighboring base stations; and a response transmitter for sending the adjustment request response to the neighboring base stations based on a result of the determination made by the adjustment request responding part.

Abstract: Provided is a micro base station to be used in a heterogeneous cellular network. The micro base station has resources including frequency bands and time slots and being available for a user to use. The heterogeneous cellular network includes a plurality of base stations including a macro base station and the micro base station. The micro base station includes: an information acquiring part configured to acquire configuration information and load information of the micro base station, and to acquire configuration information and load information of a neighboring base station adjacent to the micro base station from the neighboring base station; and a resource selection part configured to select a part of the resources from the resources to provide the selected part of the resources to the user based on the configuration information and the load information of the micro base station and the neighboring base station.

Abstract: It is provided a dynamic association control apparatus comprising: an information acquisition part configured to acquire information related to an object relay node and to candidate base stations to be associated; a blocking probability calculation part configured to calculate respectively a candidate blocking probability in a case where the object relay node performs association with each of the candidate base stations to be associated according to the acquired information; and an association control part configured to select an object blocking probability from the calculated candidate blocking probabilities, and use a base station corresponding to the selected object blocking probability as an object base station to which the association is transferred, so that the object relay node changes to be associated with the object base station to which the association is transferred.

Abstract: It is provided are a server including: a storage module for storing original files and characteristics of the original files; an encoding module for encoding the original files stored in the storage module to generate encoded symbols; an information acquisition module for communicating with at least one transmission node and acquiring state information from the at least one transmission node; a control module for calculating a number of the encoded symbols to be sent to the at least one transmission node for caching based on the characteristics of the original files stored in the storage module and the state information of the at least one transmission node acquired by the information acquisition module; and a communication module for sending the encoded symbols to the at least one transmission node based on the number of the encoded symbols calculated by the control module.

Abstract: Provided are a hyper-cellular communication system and a hyper-cellular communication method for associating a user to a macro cell base station or a micro cell base station. The hyper-cellular communication system includes: a gateway, which includes a user quality of service classification index table including two parameters, namely user mobility and signaling overhead; and a resource optimization function unit for making decisions on base station association and wireless resource allocation by referring to the quality of service classification index table.

Abstract: It is provided a renewable energy base station, which is used in a wireless cellular system, including: an adjustment request determining part for determining whether an adjustment to a coverage area is required; an adjustment request transceiver in case where it is determined that the adjustment to the coverage area is required, sending a coverage area adjustment request to neighboring base stations in the wireless cellular system, and receiving an adjustment request response from the neighboring base stations; an adjustment request responding part for determining whether the coverage area adjustment request from the one of the neighboring base stations is allowed in case where receiving the coverage area adjustment request from one of the neighboring base stations; and a response transmitter for sending the adjustment request response to the neighboring base stations based on a result of the determination made by the adjustment request responding part.

Abstract: Provided is a micro base station to be used in a heterogeneous cellular network. The micro base station has resources including frequency bands and time slots and being available for a user to use. The heterogeneous cellular network includes a plurality of base stations including a macro base station and the micro base station. The micro base station includes: an information acquiring part configured to acquire configuration information and load information of the micro base station, and to acquire configuration information and load information of a neighboring base station adjacent to the micro base station from the neighboring base station; and a resource selection part configured to select a part of the resources from the resources to provide the selected part of the resources to the user based on the configuration information and the load information of the micro base station and the neighboring base station.

Abstract: It is provided a base station included in a cellular network system together with other neighboring base stations, which provides information service to a user terminal. The base station comprising: a determination unit for comparing states of traffic currently provided by said base station and other neighboring base stations and determining whether said base station has the lowest traffic; an information transmission unit for sending a sleep request and a handover request for handing over the user terminal associated with said base station to one of the neighboring base stations in case where the determination unit determines that the traffic currently provided by the base station is lowest; a receiving unit for receiving feedback information sent from the one of the neighboring base stations after admission control; and an executing unit for executing sleep decision after receiving handover request permitting information from the neighboring base station.

Abstract: Where a follow-up playback is realized for content data that is recorded by changing an encryption key at predetermined intervals for copyright protection, fast feed and playback operations are provided that can get close to a video scene of a present point of time. There are two areas on the memory in which to manage key information. The key information and seed information being written into a hard disk drive are held in memory in order to allow access to the key information and seed information even as they are written.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to lessen burden at the time of solving a conflict of overlapping processes in processes for a plurality of interruption factors. On completion of data transfer to an external memory, a data transfer completion interruption of high priority is generated. In the case where data transfer of predetermined number of packets is not completed in reception interruption, a timer interruption of low priority is generated. Before processing data in an external memory responding to the interruption, the number of transfer packets is obtained from a counter. After restart of reception, the counter stores the number of transfer restart packets. After obtaining the number of transfer packets from a counter responding to the occurrence of the timer interruption, a data transfer completion interruption is generated.

Abstract: The present invention improves user-friendliness and protect content with increased reliability when judging whether network devices belong to the same home network. While the connection to a network is established, each network device uses a peripheral device information collection unit to collect peripheral device information indicating which ones of devices are connected to the network, and store the collected information in a peripheral device information storage unit as home network information. When the belonging of a remote device is to be judged, the home network information stored in the remote device is received. A peripheral device information collation unit collates the received home network information with the home network information stored in the peripheral device information storage unit to judge whether the remote device belongs to the same network as the local device.

Abstract: A method of configuring and performing stream data processing linked to a series of process points for high portability uses a link module to connect process points, called peer modules, to configure a stream data path. A single execution context is used for scheduling to enable high-performance processing. These constituent features are provided in a layer configuration to realize high portability and ease of development.

Abstract: A system estimates accessibility on the basis of information of a requesting device and digital rights management information of content when a utilization request of the content is raised through a network. In a device including a hard disk for storing a plurality of content files and having a networking function for transmitting the content file to other device, a utilization condition and a utilization state are so managed as to correspond to the content file and when a utilization request of a content file is made, utilizability of the content file is judged from a utilization object in the utilization request and from information of a transmitting device of the utilization request. When utilization is not judged as possible, a report is made to the transmitting device of the utilization request to the effect that the content file cannot be utilized.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to lessen burden at the time of solving a conflict of overlapping processes in processes for a plurality of interruption factors. On completion of data transfer to an external memory, a data transfer completion interruption of high priority is generated. In the case where data transfer of predetermined number of packets is not completed in reception interruption, a timer interruption of low priority is generated. Before processing data in an external memory responding to the interruption, the number of transfer packets is obtained from a counter. After restart of reception, the counter stores the number of transfer restart packets. After obtaining the number of transfer packets from a counter responding to the occurrence of the timer interruption, a data transfer completion interruption is generated.

Abstract: An internetwork arrangement including: a prefix request unit for requesting an IPv6 address prefix from each of one or more first internetwork apparatuses; a prefix generation unit for generating a second prefix required to create an IPv6 address in the user apparatus utilizing a service, the second prefix having a length different from that of said IPv6 address prefix, on the basis of each of the one or more arbitrary IPv6 address prefixes, which differ for every service, given as notice by said one or more first internetwork apparatuses; and a prefix sending unit for giving notice of one or more generated second prefixes to the connected user apparatus utilizing said service.

Abstract: The invention provides a stream data control module which can easily achieve a function expansion of a digital device and can simply, safely and inexpensively realize the recording and reproducing of stream data for a storage device. A stream data control module includes a stream I/F unit exclusively inputting and outputting stream data, a non-stream I/F unit inputting and outputting non-stream data, a device I/F unit providing an interface to data storage means, and a control unit executing a transfer process of the stream data in response to a recording command and a reproducing command given from host means. The control unit has a stream arrangement management unit managing a storing position of the stream data in the data storage means, a scheduling unit controlling a transfer order of the stream data and the non-stream data, and a command processing unit interpreting various commands given from the host means.

Abstract: Where a follow-up playback is realized for content data that is recorded by changing an encryption key at predetermined intervals for copyright protection, fast feed and playback operations are provided that can get close to a video scene of a present point of time. There are two areas on the memory in which to manage key information. The key information and seed information being written into a hard disk drive are held in memory in order to allow access to the key information and seed information even as they are written.