Patent ID: 8718027

Claim:
A wireless communication system, comprising: a first wireless access point connected via a wired communication line to a backbone communication line; a second wireless access point coupled through a wireless communication with the backbone communication line; and a system controller that controls operations of the first and second wireless access points, wherein the first wireless access point comprises; a transmission decision unit that selects, from control packets received from the system controller and addressed to the second wireless access point, a predetermined kind of control packets and sends the control packets except the predetermined kind of control packets to the second wireless access point; an associated header information removing unit that removes, at a reception of a packet to be sent to the second wireless access point with associated header information added thereto, the associated header information; and a transmission unit that transmits to the second wireless access point the packet from which the associated header information removing unit has removed the associated header information, wherein the transmission decision unit comprises determining whether or not to transfer each of the control packets which are addressed to the second wireless access point by selecting, from control packets received from the system controller and addressed to the second wireless access point, the predetermined kind of control packets and sending the control packets except the predetermined kind of control packets to the second wireless access point.