Patent ID: 6947768

Claim:
A base station apparatus corresponding to a first base station apparatus of a plurality of base station apparatuses and connected to a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the first base station apparatus transmitting and receiving a plurality of first packets with respect to a second base station apparatus corresponding to another of the base station apparatuses and transmitting and receiving a plurality of second packets with respect to the terminal apparatuses, the first base station apparatus comprising: a transmitter unit configured to transmit a third packet to the second base station apparatus, the third packet corresponding to one of the first packets to be transmitted from the first base station apparatus and including a first data item, the second base station apparatus recognizing by the first data item that the first base station apparatus is one of the base station apparatuses, the third packet being used through an authentication process or an association process for connecting in wireless the first base station apparatus to the second base station apparatus.