Autonomous distributed wireless network system, method of autonomous distributed wireless network communication and wireless terminal apparatus

• US 20030203741A1
• Filed: 04/28/2003
• Published: 10/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Toshimitsu, Kiyoshi, Sakata, Ren, Aoki, Tsuguhide, Adachi, Tomoko, Matsuo, Ryoko, Obayashi, Shuichi, Serizawa, Mutsumu, Shoki, Hiroki, Tsurumi, Hiroshi, Sekine, Syuichi
• Application Number:
  US10/423,946
• Publication Number:
  US 20030203741A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/519
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to prevent congestion of networks and to effectively use a plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks.

An autonomous distributed wireless network system in which a plurality of wireless terminals communicate with each other, comprising: a plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks each having a different communication form, and being constituted of a plurality of wireless terminals, wherein each of said plurality of wireless terminals has a network selector which allocates said plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks to communicate different categories of information with different autonomous distributed wireless networks.

Claims

1. An autonomous distributed wireless network system in which a plurality of wireless terminals communicate with each other, comprising:

a plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks each having a different communication form, and being constituted of a plurality of wireless terminals,

wherein each of said plurality of wireless terminals has a network selector which allocates said plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks to communicate different categories of information with different autonomous distributed wireless networks.

2. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 1,

wherein said categories include at least one of communication quality, power consumption, security level, interference tolerance property and the kinds of the transmitting and receiving information.

3. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 1,

wherein said communication form is communication speed;

and

said network selector selects the autonomous distributed wireless network with a prescribed communication speed based on a state of a communication path between the transmitting and receiving wireless terminals.

4. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 3,

wherein said network selector selects the autonomous distributed wireless network with a higher communication speed, as a distance between the transmitting and receiving wireless terminals becomes shorter, or a reception signal strength becomes stronger.

5. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 3,

wherein said network selector selects the autonomous distributed wireless network with a higher communication speed when the transmitting and receiving information requires immediacy, as compared with the case where immediacy is not required.

6. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 1,

wherein said communication form is a power consumption;

and

said network selector selects one of said plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks, taking into consideration the power consumption of said wireless terminal to transmit and receive information.

7. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 6,

wherein said network selector selects the autonomous distributed wireless network system with a less power consumption, as the remaining capacity of a battery of said wireless terminal becomes lower.

8. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 7,

wherein said network selector selects that said autonomous distributed wireless network with the lowest power consumption.

9. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 6,

wherein said network selector determines that the autonomous distributed wireless network in which power consumption of the wireless terminal to transmit and receive information is zero is in an off state, and selects one of the other autonomous distributed wireless networks.

10. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 1,

wherein said communication form is security level;

and

said network selector selects one of said plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks based on at least one of whether or not the wireless terminals of communication destination belong to a same autonomous distributed wireless network, and contents of the transmitting and receiving information.

11. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 10,

wherein said network selector selects different autonomous distributed wireless networks in the case where the communication destination belongs to the same autonomous distributed wireless network and in the case where the communication destination does not belong to the same autonomous distributed wireless network.

12. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 1,

wherein said communication form is interference tolerance property;

and

said network selector selects an autonomous distributed wireless network with a better interference tolerance property.

13. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 1,

wherein at least one of said plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks can communicate with abase station;

and

at least one of said plurality of wireless terminals includes;

an information combination unit which combines information from said base station, said information being received by a plurality of wireless terminals belonging to the autonomous distributed wireless network capable of communicating with said base station; and

an information transmission unit which transmits the information to the other wireless terminals which request the combined information.

14. The autonomous distributed wireless network system according to claim 13,

wherein said communication form is interference tolerance property;

and

said network selector transmits the information to the other wireless terminal, which requests the combined information combined by said information combination unit, through the autonomous distributed wireless network with a better interference tolerance property.

15. A method of autonomous distributed wireless network communication in which a plurality of wireless terminals communicate with each other, comprising:

forming a plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks each having a different communication form, and being constituted of a plurality of wireless terminals; and

communicating different categories of information by using different autonomous distributed wireless networks.

16. The method of autonomous distributed wireless network communication according to claim 15,

wherein said categories include at least one of communication quality, power consumption, security level, interference tolerance property and the kinds of the transmitting and receiving information.

17. The method of autonomous distributed wireless network communication according to claim 15,

said communication form is at least one of communication speed, power consumption, security level and interference tolerance property.

18. A wireless terminal which constitutes an autonomous distributed wireless network system, comprising:

a network formulating unit which formulates a plurality of autonomous distributed wireless networks each having a different communication form; and

a network selector which allocates said plurality of autonomous distributed wireless network to communicate different categories of information by using different autonomous distributed wireless networks.

19. The wireless terminal according to claim 18, comprising:

wherein said categories include at least one of communication quality, power consumption, security level, interference tolerance property and the kinds of the transmitting and receiving information.

20. The wireless terminal according to claim 18, comprising:

said communication form is at least one of communication speed, power consumption, security level and interference tolerance property.