RELAY APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATON SYSTEM

A relay apparatus in a communication system including a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a plurality of relay apparatuses which include the relay apparatus, including: a receiver configured to receive distributed sequential packets from the transmission apparatus which distributes sequential packets for the reception apparatus among the plurality of relay apparatuses, a memory configured to store distributed sequential packets of the sequential packets in sequential order, the distributed sequential packets are distributed and transmitted to the relay apparatus by the transmission apparatus, and a processor configured to select a discard packet from the distributed sequential packets based on a discard condition, and to add a discard information to a previous packet and to transmit the previous packet, the discard information indicates a sequence number of the discard packet to be discarded, and the previous packet is one of the distributed sequential packets before the discard packet in sequential order.