Patent ID: 7502330

Claim:
A radio communication apparatus for transmitting and receiving a plurality of frames to and from another radio communication apparatus, comprising: a first transmitting unit configured to sequentially burst-transmit a plurality of first frames at a plurality of transmission rates to said another radio communication apparatus so as not to receive, from said another radio communication apparatus when each of the first frames is burst-transmitted, information indicating which frames included in the first frames are received or fail to be received; a second transmitting unit configured to transmit, to said another radio communication apparatus, an inquiry signal for inquiring which second frames included in the first frames are properly received by said another radio communication apparatus after the first transmitting unit burst-transmits the first frames; a receiving unit configured to receive, from said another radio communication apparatus, the information which is included ha plurality of received information items corresponding to the second frames; and a rate setting unit configured to set the first transmitting unit to a transmission rate used for next transmission of third frames to said another radio communication apparatus, based on the information received by the receiving unit.