Patent ID: 7430195

Claim:
A wireless communication system having a plurality of wireless terminal stations to perform direct communication without passing through a wireless base station, comprising: a first wireless communication station configured to perform only a first wireless communication using a first channel having a first frequency band; a plurality of second wireless communication stations each capable of performing not only the first wireless communication but a second wireless communication using a second channel having a second frequency band with a bandwidth greater than that of the first frequency band; a generation device configured to generate a switching control frame to control switching between a communication period by the first wireless communication and a communication period by the second wireless communication; and a communication control device configured to control one of the second wireless communication stations so as to transmit the switching control frame generated by the generation device, wherein the one of the second wireless terminal stations is selected, based on a beacon frame transmitted through the first wireless communication, as a temporal central control station having a switching control right to control switching between the first wireless communication and the second wireless communication.