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Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2020
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ryota Shiina, Musashino, JP;

Tomohiro Taniguchi, Musashino, JP;

Kazutaka Hara, Musashino, JP;

Shinya Tamaki, Musashino, JP;

Tomoki Murakami, Musashino, JP;

Toshiro Nakahira, Musashino, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02);
Abstract

An object of the present disclosure is to make already installed smart lightings available as optical base stations as they are without modifying them, and perform connection/authentication control for RF communication using an optical signal sent out from the optical base stations. The present disclosure is a wireless communication system including: one or more wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with a terminal; a base station control device that collects wireless base station information from each wireless base station, determines a wireless base station that wirelessly communicates with the terminal using the collected wireless base station information, and transmits an optical ID corresponding to the determined wireless base station; and one or more optical base stations that receive the optical ID from the base station control device, and transmit the received optical ID to the terminal using an optical signal, wherein the wireless base station determined by the base station control device wirelessly communicates with the terminal that receives the optical ID.


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