INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR SCHEDULING FRAME TRANSMISSIONS

According to an arrangement, an information processing apparatus (10) includes a prefetch unit (20) and a scheduler unit (26). The prefetch unit (20) prefetches a scheduling entry corresponding to a future time period in advance from scheduling information including one or more scheduling entries, each entry of which contains a transmission state and an interval for each of one or more transmission queues. The scheduler unit (26) determines a starting time of transmission for one or more frames waiting for transmission in each queue, based on the scheduling entry. At least one of a timing of the prefetching process and a timing of the scheduling process is determined based on a result of a comparison of a time difference and one or more thresholds. The time difference is a difference between a current time and a future time where the future time is a candidate for starting time of transmission.