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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2009
Yosuke Matsushita, Osaka, JP;
Yuki Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Hideki Homma, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Morita, Fukuoka, JP;
Yosuke Matsushita, Osaka, JP;
Yuki Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Hideki Homma, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Morita, Fukuoka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a communication terminal that is capable of securing a route having the finest state while suppressing a bandwidth that is consume by a transmission of a control packet at a low level, when applied in an ad-hoc network which uses an electrical power line. The communication terminal included in the ad-hoc network acquires a plurality of route candidates at the beginning of a data transmission by conducting a broadcast transmission of a route creation packet, and acquires a route having the finest state by conducting an unicast transmission of a route estimation packet to each of the route candidates in each predetermined period.