Abstract:
A communication device according to an embodiment may be connected with other communication device via a multihop meshed network. The device comprises a transmission unit and a decision unit. The transmission unit may be configured to transmit packet to the other communication device by either one of a unicast communication and a multicast communication. The decision unit may be configured to decide between the unicast communication and the multicast communication as a sending method of multicast packet to be transmitted form the transmission unit based on configuration information about the multihop meshed network.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus has a communication part, a message receiving part, a network-information acquiring part, a peripheral-apparatus information managing part, a task accepting part, a task allocating part, a task processing part, a process-related information generating part, and a message transmitting part configured to generate a message that includes the process-related information and transmit the message including the process-related information to the other communication apparatuses via the communication part and the network.