Patent ID: 6542494
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A communication control method for controlling an access of wireless communication among a plurality of communication stations based on common information to be transmitted from a control station, comprising the steps of:specifying a frame period by means of a predetermined signal; setting a management data transmission region in the frame period; and setting an information data transmission region in the frame period, wherein information data is transmitted by polling control from the control station, and when said common information to be transmitted from said control station in said management data transmission region is received by said plurality of communication stations, the received common information is retransmitted by any of the communication stations in said management data transmission region, wherein a communication station retransmitting said common information is a branch station which judges that a hidden station incapable of directly making communication with said control station exists among said plurality of communication stations by performing communication with its own station, whereby said control station communicates through said branch station with said hidden station in said information data transmission region.