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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2020
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Riku Omiya, Musashino, JP;
Yasushi Takatori, Musashino, JP;
Takafumi Hayashi, Musashino, JP;
Koichi Ishihara, Musashino, JP;
Tomoki Murakami, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A wireless communication device that detects a vacant channel by carrier sensing from among a plurality of channels and performs communication using the vacant channel includes a carrier sensing unit configured to divide channels to be carrier sensed between a wireless station and a surrounding wireless station, acquire a result of carrier sensing from the surrounding wireless station, and share results of carrier sensing from the wireless station and the surrounding wireless station to detect the vacant channel.