COMMUNICATION UNIT, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, PACKET FORWARDING METHOD AND PROGRAM Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC H04L12/717 

FIELD: radio engineering and communications.

SUBSTANCE: for this purpose, communicating device comprises first table with first recording with condition of conformity, which includes at least, address of recipient and associated with recipient output packet corresponding to condition of compliance; second table with second recording with predetermined condition of compliance; unit of study of recipient, which records set of source and receiving port of received packet as recipient and output matching criteria, respectively, in first table; packet processing unit and forwards packet to receiver output, defined in first table, when record, with matching condition corresponding to received packet found in each of first and second tables. Packet processing unit broadcasts received packet according to third record when record, with matching condition corresponding to received packet is not found.

EFFECT: reduced number of records stored in unit of communication, and reduced load on control device in network of centralized control.

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