Wireless device, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method

• US 8,774,732 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2010
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kobayakawa, Shuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Hanidu, Ganiyu A
• Application Number:
  US12/840,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20110053494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,448 Days
• Field of Search: 455/70, 455/556.1, 455/411, 455/41.2, 455/323, 455/41, 455/25, 455/445, 455/517, 455/422.1, 370/319, 370/328, 370/335, 370/315, 370/352, 370/302, 370/360, 370/401, 370/402
• US Class Current: 455/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/155 Ground-based stations H04B7/204 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/5692 Selection among different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/24 Multipath
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/22 using selective relaying for reaching a BTS [Base Transceiver Station] or an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A wireless device selects another wireless device that is the relay destination of data and transmits data to a data collector that collects data. Then, the wireless device transmits data obtained by adding relay-destination-device identification information of identifying the another wireless device that is a relay destination to the same as data transmitted to the data collector to the selected wireless device that is the relay destination of data. Moreover, the wireless device transmits the received data to the data collector when data obtained by adding relay-destination-device identification information is received from another wireless device and the device itself corresponds to the relay-destination-device identification information.

Claims

1. A wireless device comprising:

a relay destination selecting unit that selects a first wireless device other than the wireless device as a relay destination of data;

a data transmitting unit that transmits first data to a data collector and transmits second data to the first wireless device, the transmitted second data containing the first data and relay-destination-device identification information for identifying the first wireless device, the data collector performing beam forming for collecting data; and

a data relaying unit that receives a second data from a second wireless device other than the wireless device, the data relaying unit determining whether the wireless device corresponds to the relay destination device identification information included in the second data, the data relaying unit transmitting the received second data to the data collector when the data relaying unit determines the wireless device corresponds to the relay-destination-device identification information in the received second data indicates the wireless device.

2. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein the first wireless device to be selected by the relay destination selecting unit has a radio field intensity not less than a predetermined value from the wireless device.

3. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein the data relaying unit transmits the received second data to the data collector when radio field intensity between the wireless device and the data collector is more than radio field intensity between any other wireless device and the data collector.

4. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein

the relay destination selecting unit selects a plurality of first wireless devices each being a relay destination of data, and

the data transmitting unit transmits as a second data, data containing the first data and relay-destination-device identification information for identifying the respective first wireless devices.

7. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein

the data collector previously decides a key station based on a communication state with the data collector among from wireless devices and informs decided wireless device that the decided wireless device is the key station, and

the data relaying unit transmits the received second data to the data collector when the wireless device is the key station informed by the data collector.

8. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein

the data transmitting unit adds information indicating the wireless device that relays the data both to the first data and the second data.

5. A wireless communication system, comprising:

a first wireless device other than the wireless device;

a second wireless device other than the wireless device; and

a data collector, wherein the first wireless device includes

a relay destination selecting unit that selects the second wireless device as a relay destination of data; and

a data transmitting unit that transmits first data to the data collector and transmits second data to the second wireless device, the transmitted second data containing the first data and relay-destination-device identification information for identifying the second wireless device, the data collector performing beam forming for collecting data,

the second wireless device includes a data relaying unit that receives a second data from the first wireless device, the data relaying unit determining whether the second wireless device corresponds to the relay destination device identification information included in the second data, and transmits the received second data to the data collector when the data relaying unit determines the second wireless device corresponds to the relay-destination-device identification information in the received second data indicates the second wireless device, and

the data collector includes a data receiving unit that receives the first data transmitted from the first wireless device and the second data transmitted from the second wireless device.

6. A wireless communication method, comprising

selecting, at a first wireless device other than the wireless device, a second wireless device other than the wireless device as a relay destination of data;

and

transmitting, at the first wireless device, first data to a data collector;

transmitting, at the first wireless device, second data to the second wireless device, the second data containing the first data and relay-destination-device identification information for identifying the second wireless device, the data collector performing beam forming for collecting data;

receiving, at the second wireless device, a second data from the first wireless device;

determining whether the wireless device corresponds to the relay destination device identification information included in the second data;

transmitting, at the second wireless device, the received second data to the data collector when the determining determines the wireless device corresponds to the relay-destination-device identification information in the received second data indicates the second wireless device; and

receiving, at the data collector, the first data transmitted from the first wireless device and the received second data transmitted from the second wireless device.