Patent ID: 7756069

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a wireless local area network (LAN) base station controller; a wireless LAN base station apparatus; and a wireless LAN terminal, wherein: the wireless LAN base station controller receives a downlink broadcast frame or multicast frame and transmits, to the wireless LAN base station apparatus, a first frame having a wireless LAN frame and a transmission header that is used between the wireless LAN base station controller and the wireless LAN base station apparatus, and the wireless LAN base station apparatus transmits, to the wireless LAN terminal, the wireless LAN frame with a basic service set identifier (BSSID), wherein: the wireless LAN base station controller comprises: a frame conversion section that forms a wireless LAN header based on a header of a data link layer of the downlink broadcast frame or multicast frame and converts the broadcast frame or multicast frame to the wireless LAN frame using the wireless LAN header; a frame formation section that forms the transmission header whose destination address is a broadcast address or a multicast address and encapsulates the wireless LAN frame by the transmission header; and a transmission section that transmits the first frame including the wireless LAN frame encapsulated by the transmission header; and the wireless LAN base station apparatus comprises: a header modification section that removes the transmission header and adds the BSSID assigned to the wireless LAN base station apparatus to a header part of the wireless LAN frame transmitted from the wireless LAN base station controller; and a wireless LAN frame transmission section that transmits the wireless LAN frame with the BSSID added to the header part by the header modification section.