Task allocation in a distributed network based on network information and messages

摘要

An information processing apparatus 1 has a communication part 2 for communicating with communication apparatus 30 via network 20, a message receiving part 3, a network-information acquiring part 4, a peripheral-apparatus information managing part 5, a task accepting part 6, a task allocating part 7, a task processing part 8, a process-related information generating part 9, and a message transmitting part 10 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. The received messages may include process-related information on other communication apparatus 30. The process-related information may include processing capability 12 or processing load 13. The network information may include connection mode, communication quality, communication delay, packet error rate, the number of hops or signal strength. The task allocating part allocates tasks to the task processing part or requests they are performed by other communication apparatus 30 on the basis of the messages received and network information. The information processing apparatus may be a monitoring camera and the tasks may concerns image processing such as facial recognition or gender determination.