Patent ID: 8363561

Claim:
A control device that controls, within a wireless network that includes one or more terminal devices, a wireless communication by using a plurality of frequency channels, the control device comprising: a wireless reception section that receives wireless signals of the plurality of frequency channels; a quality determining section which determines, based on reception conditions of the wireless signals received by the wireless reception section, available frequency channels among the plurality of frequency channels, and which determines a usage sequence of the determined available frequency channels for a use in a communication; a beacon generating section that generates a beacon in which the usage sequence of the frequency channels is described; a channel configuration section that configures the frequency channels to be used, in accordance with the usage sequence of the frequency channels; a transmission data generating section that generates transmission data; a wireless transmission section that transmits, the beacon generated by the beacon generating section, and the transmission data generated by the transmission data generating section, to the one or more terminal devices as wireless signals by using the frequency channels configured by the channel configuration section; a timing control section that controls the wireless transmission section regarding a timing of a transmission of the wireless signals; and an antenna that transmits and receives the wireless signals via the wireless reception section and the wireless transmission section.