Patent ID: 9215716
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory, wherein the processor executes: receiving communication data that is transmitted to the wireless communication apparatus, the communication data including address information of the wireless communication apparatus in destination information, and including any channel number information among a plurality of channel numbers; obtaining the channel number information included in the communication data; judging whether the obtained channel number information is channel number information indicating a channel of a communication target; and performing a receiving process on the communication data when it is determined that the obtained channel number information is channel number information indicating the channel of the communication target at the judging, and discarding the received communication data when it is determined that the obtained channel number information is not channel number information indicating the channel of the communication target at the judging, wherein the processor further executes transmitting, when a HELLO transmission time has arrived, in the manner of a broadcast, a HELLO message containing node information stored in the wireless communication apparatus, and the HELLO message contains, in addition to the node information of the wireless communication apparatus, other node information including the node information of a gateway (GW), wherein the node that has received the HELLO message registers a source node into a routing table and registers information indicating that a path to the gateway is routed through the source node into the routing table and a link table, wherein the routing table stores therein, as path information to a destination node, a hop number, a path quality weight, and a return path link weight, and the link table stores therein a local sender address, link quality information, the number of times a HELLO has been received, and a HELLO request interval, received via the HELLO messages.