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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2006
Hiroshi Doi, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Mimura, Tokyo, JP;
Taisuke Matsumoto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A wireless communication method wherein the power consumption can be reduced as compared with the conventional one and a wireless communication apparatus can synchronize its super-frame with the super-frame of another wireless communication apparatus in an ad hoc network. According to this method, in the ad hoc network where a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses use broadband signals to data-communicate with each other, a wireless communication apparatus transmits an end tone () for identifying the end of a super-frame (), and when another wireless communication apparatus receives the end tone (), it synchronizes the end of its super-frame () with the end of the foregoing super-frame (). In this way, the super-frames () can be synchronized even without any beacons.