Patent ID: 6909893

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a plurality of base stations separated from each other by a predetermined distance along a traveling route of a vehicle and having respective communication areas; and a terminal station carried by a vehicle for wireless communication with the base stations when entering the communication areas of the base stations, wherein each communication area of the base stations is sized to cover generally only one vehicle to exist therein and the communication areas are separated from one another without overlapping, wherein: data is dividedly transmitted in the communication areas of the base stations existing along a traveling direction of the vehicle in case that transmission of the data to the terminal station is not completed within the communication area of each base station; the terminal station includes data storage means for accumulating the data transmitted dividedly; and the data storage means has a data storage capacity which is more than a value R×T which is a product of R and T, R representing playing data rate at the terminal station and T (=L/v) representing non-data transmission time determined by a velocity v at which the terminal station moves between adjacent communication areas divisionally transmitting the data and the distance L between the adjacent communication areas.