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Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication control method for wireless communication system

  • US 7,720,033 B2
  • Filed: 04/30/2007
  • Issued: 05/18/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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