According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a prefetch unit and a scheduler unit. The prefetch unit is configured to prefetch a scheduling entry corresponding a future time period in advance from scheduling information including one or more entries each of which at least contains a transmission state and interval for each of one or more transmission queues. The scheduler unit configured to determine a starting time of transmission for each frame waiting for transmission in each queue, on the basis of the prefetched entry.