Patent ID: 7664111

Claim:
A network switch apparatus comprising: a route management table for managing first information on a communication route in a wireless network, the wireless network including a plurality of wireless access devices; a connection device management table for managing second information on wireless network devices to be connected to the wireless access devices; and a signal transmitter for generating from a received first communication signal a second communication signal, and for transmitting the second communication signal, wherein said signal transmitter includes: a wireless access device determiner for using said connection device management table to determine a first one of the wireless access devices which is to be connected to a first one of the wireless network devices when a destination to which the first communication signal is destined is the first wireless network device; a route acquirer for acquiring from the first information, information on a second one of the wireless access devices which relays the first communication signal when transmitted to the first wireless access device; and a header information adder for adding header information for communication between the wireless access devices to the first communication signal to thereby produce the second communication signal, the header information designating the first wireless access device determined as the destination, and the second wireless access device as a relaying device, whereby the second communication signal is relayed by the second wireless access device on a basis of the header information to the first wireless access device.