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Granted Patent B2
US 11,425,207 · App. 17/251,820 · Granted Aug 23, 2022

Receiving device estimating that a communication device is in an incommunicable state

Inventor: Manato Takai (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
H04L67/145
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Patent No.
US 11,425,207
App. No.
17/251,820
Granted
Aug 23, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A receiving device includes processing circuitry to determine timings for generating monitoring-side keep alive signals at same timings as timings when a plurality of communication devices transmit monitored-side keep alive signals, to generate a plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals at a plurality of timings determined, and to estimate a communication device in an incommunicable state based on a comparison result of a number of monitoring-side keep alive signals generated thereafter and a number of monitored-side keep alive signals received thereafter when the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals are generated, if a number of the received monitored-side keep alive signals is smaller than a number of the generated monitoring-side keep alive signals.

Claims (7)

1. A receiving device comprising:

processing circuitry

to determine timings for generating a plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals at same timings as timings when a plurality of communication devices transmit monitored-side keep alive signals,

to generate the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals at the plurality of timings determined, without transmitting the generated plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals to the plurality of communication devices, and

to estimate that a communication device is in an incommunicable state without transmitting the generated plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals to the plurality of communication devices and based on a comparison result of a number of the monitoring-side keep alive signals generated by the receiving device thereafter and a number of monitored-side keep alive signals received from the plurality of communication devices thereafter when the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals are generated, if the number of the received monitored-side keep alive signals is smaller than the number of the generated monitoring-side keep alive signals.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals are simultaneously generated, if the number of the received monitored-side keep alive signals is smaller than a number of all monitored terminals that should be monitored, the processing circuitry estimates that the communication device is in the incommunicable state based on a graph theory which produces a comparison result of a number of monitoring-side keep alive signals generated before and after the generation of the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals and a number of monitored-side keep alive signals received before and after the generation of the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals.

3. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals are simultaneously generated, if the number of the received monitored-side keep alive signals is smaller than a number of all monitored terminals that should be monitored, the processing circuitry estimates that the communication device is in the incommunicable state based on compressed sensing using a conversion matrix including a comparison result of a number of monitoring-side keep alive signals generated before and after the generation of the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals and a number of monitored-side keep alive signals received before and after the generation of the plurality of monitoring-side keep alive signals and timing generation information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 14, 2020
From: TAKAI, MANATO
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 054629/0559 →
Continuity (1)
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