Patent ID: 8693325

Claim:
A radio communication system performing radio communication, comprising: a gateway apparatus configured to generate allocation information on one or more individual channels in a radio frame, each of the one or more individual channels being allocated individually to one of a plurality of radio stations; and transmit the generated allocation information, and the plurality of radio stations each of which configured to receive the allocation information; and determine, when information indicating an own station is not included in the received allocation information, whether the own station competes with a radio station among one or more radio stations to which the one or more individual channels are allocated based on the received allocation information, perform, when the own station is determined not to compete with the radio station, data transmission by random access through any channel in the radio frame, and perform, when the own station is determined to compete with the radio station, data transmission by random access through a channel other than an individual channel allocated to the radio station in the radio frame.