Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication control method for wireless communication system
First Claim
1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:
- a reserved period ensuring module configured to ensure a reserved period to be occupied for communication of the wireless communication apparatus in a communicable period time-shared in a group by adjustment in a periodic beacon period;
a wireless communication module configured to perform wireless communication using the reserved period ensured by the reserved period ensuring module;
a group generator configured to generate a new group in which a periodic beacon period is formed not to temporally overlap a beacon period of the original group and to cause the wireless communication apparatus to belong to the new group, when the reserved period ensuring module fails to ensure the reserved period; and
a controller configured to control the reserved period ensuring module to ensure the reserved period not to temporally overlap the beacon period of the original group in the communicable period of the new group to which the wireless communication apparatus is caused to belong by the group generator.
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a reserved period ensuring unit which ensures a reserved period to be occupied for communication in a communicable period time-shared in a group by adjustment in a periodic beacon period, a wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication using the reserved period, a group generating unit which generates a new group in which a periodic beacon period is formed not to temporally overlap the beacon period and causes the apparatus to belong to the new group, when the reserved period ensuring unit fails to ensure the reserved period, and a controlling unit which controls the reserved period ensuring unit to ensure the reserved period not to temporally overlap the beacon period of the original group in the communicable period of the new group to which the apparatus is caused to belong by the group generating unit.
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13 Claims
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1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:
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a reserved period ensuring module configured to ensure a reserved period to be occupied for communication of the wireless communication apparatus in a communicable period time-shared in a group by adjustment in a periodic beacon period; a wireless communication module configured to perform wireless communication using the reserved period ensured by the reserved period ensuring module; a group generator configured to generate a new group in which a periodic beacon period is formed not to temporally overlap a beacon period of the original group and to cause the wireless communication apparatus to belong to the new group, when the reserved period ensuring module fails to ensure the reserved period; and a controller configured to control the reserved period ensuring module to ensure the reserved period not to temporally overlap the beacon period of the original group in the communicable period of the new group to which the wireless communication apparatus is caused to belong by the group generator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A wireless communication control method for a wireless communication system which includes a group comprising a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses, and time-shares a communicable period in a group by adjustment in a periodic beacon period, the method comprising:
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generating a new group in which a periodic beacon period is formed not to temporally overlap a beacon period of the original group when the communicable period has no free period; and ensuring a reserved period in the communicable period of the new group not to temporally overlap the beacon period of the original group. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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