Patent ID: 8483115
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus that sends data to a plurality of communication apparatuses, the control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive, from each of the plurality of communication apparatuses, identification information of other communication apparatuses with which the communication apparatus is capable of communication; a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of communication apparatuses, one or more communication apparatuses, which perform a maximum likelihood process for data received from two or more apparatuses and send data obtained by the maximum likelihood process, as one or more relay apparatuses; an instruction unit configured to instruct the communication apparatus selected by the selection unit as the relay apparatus to relay data; a decision unit configured to decide a communication timing at which the one or more relay apparatuses selected by the selection unit relay the data; and a notifying control unit configured to notify the one or more relay apparatuses selected by the selection unit of the communication timing.