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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2007
Hiroshi Doi, Osaka, JP;
Taisuke Matsumoto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hiroshi Doi, Osaka, JP;
Taisuke Matsumoto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
There is disclosed a wireless communication apparatus that does not interrupt synchronous communication but can continuously perform the synchronous communication even when an address duplication occurs between the local wireless communication apparatus and a nearby wireless communication apparatus. A plurality of wireless communication apparatuses constitutes an ad hoc network system where they transmit beacons to each other. In the wireless communication apparatus, an address processing part () generates a first address, which includes a beacon period slot number corresponding to the position-on-beacon-period of a beacon generated by the local wireless communication apparatus, and a second address assigned at random. A beacon processing part () determines whether the second address generated by the address processing part () is coincident with a second address at another wireless communication apparatus. A transmitting part () uses one of the first and second addresses generated by the address processing part () to transmit a frame to the other wireless communication apparatus.