Patent ID: 7346372

Claim:
A radio communication system for performing radio-signal communication control, comprising: a mobile terminal for searching for a beacon signal and for transmitting a connection request to a radio station which has sent the beacon signal captured; and the radio station comprising: a beacon-signal transmission section for transmitting the beacon signal indicating the existence of the local station; a connection-count management section for managing, according to a connection-completion message, a local-station connection count indicating the number of mobile terminals currently connected to the local station and an other-station connection count indicating the number of mobile terminals currently connected to the other station; a connection processing section for receiving the connection request, for performing comparison processing for the local-station connection count and the other-station connection count, for applying, when the local-station connection count is smaller than the other-station connection count, connection processing to the mobile terminal and for generating a connection-completion message when a connection to the mobile terminal is completed, and for rejecting connection processing for the mobile terminal when the local-station connection count is larger than the other-station connection count; and an inter-station communication section for transmitting the connection-completion message generated by the local station to the other station and for receiving a connection-completion message from the other station.