Patent ID: 7221661

Claim:
A radio terminal communicating by the time division connection method, comprising a control portion for synchronizing its transmission/reception timing to that of a group including a plurality of radio terminals, wherein said control portion: determines the overall cycle including basic cycles in a number corresponding to the number of said radio terminals within said group; conducts control to transmit a signal in a basic cycle that is included in said overall cycle and that is set by a unique terminal number allotted in advance to each of said radio terminals; conducts control to receive signals from another radio terminal in another basic cycle; adjusts the transmission/reception timing based on the data received from said other radio terminal in said other basic cycle; saves the reception timing until a process to adjust the transmission/reception timing is conducted; prepares a sequence number, attaches said sequence number to a plurality of packets, and conducts control to transmit said packets at a predetermined timing within said basic cycle for transmission; when said control portion receives at least one of said plurality of packets with the sequence number attached thereto from another radio terminal, said control portion calculates the adjustment period based on the sequence number of the received packet; and said control portion sets the timing of the transmission and reception cycle based on said adjustment period, wherein, when the number of packets to be transmitted is n, the packet time is B, and the preset adjustment period is C, when the packet received from another radio terminal is the kth packet, said adjustment period becomes B*(n−k)+C, and after packet reception had ended and said adjustment period has passed, the intermittence period starts.