Patent ID: 7408929

Claim:
A radio communication system in which at least one of a plurality of radio communication terminals relays a radio communication packet including a header, comprising: a first radio communication terminal which is included in the plurality of radio communication terminals and stores, in a first field contained in the header of the radio communication packet, address information indicating at least one radio communication terminal to which the radio communication packet is directly transmitted; and a second radio communication terminal which is included in the plurality of radio communication terminals and relays the radio communication packet with reference to the address information stored in the first field, the header of the radio communication packet including a second field which stores address information indicating a final destination terminal and a third field which stores address information indicating the first radio communication terminal as a sending source, wherein the second radio communication terminal extracts the address information from the first field of the radio communication packet, determines, based on the address information extracted, whether or not the second radio communication terminal is an immediate destination to which the radio communication packet is transmitted, updates the address information in the first field, and then transmits the radio communication packet which includes the address information updated to at least remaining one of the radio communication terminals when the second radio communication terminal determines to be the immediate destination.