APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING NETWORK, NETWORK CONSTRUCTION METHOD, AND NETWORK CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus capable of automatically constructing a network among installation objects. SOLUTION: The apparatus includes: a transmission/reception section 100 for a packet transmission/reception; a reception control section 101 for extracting a data link layer header from a received packet; a reception information storage section 102 for storing the received packet; a packet transmission/reception control section 103 for recognizing a type of the received packet and a request by referring to the data link layer header and autonomously generating a packet in response thereto; a timer section 104 for counting a time for a transmission/reception timing of the autonomously generated packet; a higher-order layer control section 107 for applying processing to packets of higher-order layers other than the data link layer; a transmission information storage section 106 for storing the transmission packets transmitted from the packet transmission/reception control section 103 and the higher-order layer control section 107; and a transmission control section 105 for carrying out transmission control of the transmission packets. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI