Patent ID: 8139506
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication apparatus, comprising: a reception unit configured to simultaneously receive frames through first to nth frequency channels from an other communication apparatus, where n is an integer of 2 or greater; an error detection unit configured to perform error detection on the frames to judge success or failure of reception of each of the frames; a delivery confirmation frame creator configured to create a delivery confirmation frame including information indicating success or failure of reception of each of the frames; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the delivery confirmation frame through x specific channel of the first to nth frequency channels to the other communication apparatus after a predetermined time from reception of the frames, where x is an integer in a range from 1 or more to n−1 or fewer, and wherein transmission on each of the frequency channels from the other communication apparatus is performed with first transmission power, respectively, and the transmission unit performs transmission on each of the x specific channel with the first transmission power, respectively.