Patent ID: 7660325

Claim:
A communication control apparatus included in one of a plurality of nodes constituting a telecommunications system, said apparatus comprising: a communication timing signal transmitter/receiver for receiving a first communication timing signal representative of a transmission timing of a data signal from a neighboring one of the plurality of nodes which adjoins said one node, and transmitting a second communication timing-signal of said one node; a communication timing determining circuit for receiving a phase signal representative of a data transmission timing of the neighboring node in the first communication timing signal to vary a state of a phase of said one node according to a rule to thereby determine a transmission timing of the second communication timing signal in accordance with basic rate information and the first communication timing signal, the rule changing a rhythm of a nonlinear oscillation of the phase of said one node in response to an impulse signal in the first communication timing signal, the basic rate information defining a transmission timing of the second communication timing signal; and a basic rate information controller for controlling the basic rate information used by said communication timing determining circuit.