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Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Tomohiro Taniguchi, Musashino, JP;

Ryota Shiina, Musashino, JP;

Kazutaka Hara, Musashino, JP;

Tomoki Murakami, Musashino, JP;

Toshiro Nakahira, Musashino, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/85 (2013.01); H04B 10/112 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/85 (2013.01); H04B 10/1129 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

An object is to provide a communication system, a base station, and a communication method that can avoid a state in which an RF wireless communication cannot be started due to the quality of optical wireless communication. In an optical communication system according to the present invention, a base station device repeatedly transmits an authentication information frame addressed to a terminal device at a predetermined cycle by the optical wireless communication, the frame including authentication information for connection to the terminal device by the RF wireless communication. Even if the terminal fails to acquire the authentication information at a certain timing due to the quality of optical wireless communication, the communication system has a mechanism that acquires the same authentication information at regular time intervals, so that terminal authentication processing can be performed at the time when the terminal acquires the authentication information.


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