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COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

  • US 20110063980A1
  • Filed: 09/14/2010
  • Published: 03/17/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communication apparatus comprising:

  • an acquiring unit that acquires wireless cost for each path to other communication apparatuses in an ad hoc network to which the communication apparatus belongs;

    an accumulating unit that accumulates wireless cost for each path, acquired at different times by the acquiring unit;

    a determining unit that determines a priority level for each path, based on time correlations among the paths in terms of the wireless cost accumulated by the accumulating unit; and

    a communicating unit that communicates with the other communication apparatuses by preferentially using a path of a relatively high priority level.

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