Patent ID: 8179851

Claim:
A mobile communication system for wireless data communication, the system comprising: a repeater which includes: a repeater-side acquirer which acquires a Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) value indicative of a maximum size of data that can be transferred at a time over a destination-side transmission path leading to a destination of data to be transmitted from the mobile station, a repeater-side memory which stores the acquired MTU value of the destination-side transmission path, and a repeater-side notifier which sends out the MTU value stored in the repeater-side memory; a base station which includes: a base station-side acquirer which acquires the MTU value sent out by the repeater-side notifier, a base station-side memory which stores the MTU value acquired by the base station-side acquirer, and a base station-side notifier which sends out the MTU value stored in the base station-side memory; and a mobile station which includes: a mobile station-side acquirer which acquires the MTU value sent out by the base station-side notifier, a mobile station-side memory which stores the MTU value acquired by the mobile station-side acquirer, and a mobile station-side transmitter which transmits the data to the destination with a data size of the data set to be smaller than or equal to the MTU value stored in the mobile station-side memory.