Patent ID: 8228895

Claim:
A radio communication device utilizing a communication scheme in which data frames having a fixed period are exchanged via a wireless network, the radio communication device comprising: a radio control unit configured to execute a process including: achieving timing synchronization using the frames, assigning a transmission and reception interval during which a report signal for informing state management information about each of radio communication devices and a control signal for controlling each of said radio communication devices are transmitted and received in a fixed time interval at a head of each frame, each frame containing another time interval for transmitting and receiving application data to and from a partner radio communication device, and reserving and securing communication band units allocated to said another time interval in the frame according to a difference between a transmission rate of said application data and that of a signal in the wireless network, the communication band units being formed by dividing a communication band for said another time interval according to a fixed band width, and being reserved and secured on a unit-by-unit basis by using said report signal and said control signal.