Patent ID: 8255533

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a plurality of communication terminals; and a management terminal which manages the plurality of communication terminals, wherein at least one communication terminal of the plurality of communication terminals includes: a first transmission section for transmitting a first beacon; a first reception section for receiving a response which is transmitted from another communication terminal having received the first beacon, the response including identification information; a storage section, in which the other communication terminal is registered as a terminal which belongs to a group where the at least one communication terminal serves as a representative, for storing the identification information of the other communication terminal; a second reception section for receiving a second beacon from the management terminal; and a second transmission section for collectively transmitting together with a group authentication request which requests authentication of all of the communication terminals which belong to the group, to the management terminal in response to reception of the second beacon, identification information of the at least one communication terminal and the identification information of the other communication terminal, which is stored in the storage section, and wherein the management terminal includes: a transmission section for transmitting the second beacon; a reception section for collectively receiving the identification information and the group authentication request from the at least one communication terminal which serves as the representative of the group; and a control section for performing an authentication procedure for each of all of the communication terminals which form the group, in response to the reception of the group authentication request by using the identification information.