Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090010199 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus having a relay function comprises a memory to store an address of a first wireless communication apparatus connected to the wireless communication apparatus and having a relay function, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a first relay frame addressed to the first wireless communication apparatus, the first relay frame including a first address field prepared for a final destination address, an address of a second communication apparatus not connected to the wireless communication apparatus being set in the first address field, and a second address field prepared for an address of a third wireless communication apparatus connecting the second communication apparatus and having a relay function, one of an address except for the address of the third wireless communication apparatus and a specific value being set in the second address field. | 01-08-2009 |
20090016379 | Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system - A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus. | 01-15-2009 |
20090022132 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS TERMINAL - A wireless communication system includes first and second wireless terminals capable of performing transmission by at least one of a first transmission scheme and a second transmission scheme. The first wireless terminal performs transmission of a first frame to the second wireless terminal by using the second transmission scheme. The second wireless terminal communicates with the first wireless terminal to notify the first wireless terminal of information associated with a status of the reception of the first frame transmitted from the first wireless terminal by using the first transmission scheme. | 01-22-2009 |
20090196364 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A radio communication method stores a plurality MAC frames for each of a plurality of destinations. The method decides the longest transmission time of transmission times needed to transmit the plurality of MAC frames to each of the plurality of destinations within a fixed period. The method generates a plurality of physical frames for the plurality of destinations to transmit them at the same time by connecting the plurality of MAC frames and adding additional information to each connected MAC frame so as to be a frame length equivalent to a transmission time equal to the longest transmission time. | 08-06-2009 |
20100046437 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive one physical frame in which a plurality of MAC frames are aggregated. This physical frame includes one acknowledgement request frame for the plurality of MAC frames. The apparatus includes an acknowledgement frame forming device configured to form an acknowledgement frame representing reception statuses of the plurality of MAC frames in response to the acknowledgement request frame. The apparatus also includes a transmitting device configured to transmit the acknowledgement frame. This acknowledgement frame includes a compressed acknowledgement frame representing an acknowledgement bitmap having a size equal to a maximum number of MSDUs (MAC Service Data Units) when one MPDU (MAC Protocol Data Unit) corresponds to one MSDU. | 02-25-2010 |
20100046518 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus. | 02-25-2010 |
20100046540 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive one physical frame in which a plurality of MAC frames are aggregated. This physical frame includes one acknowledgement request frame for the plurality of MAC frames. The apparatus includes an acknowledgement frame forming device configured to form an acknowledgement frame representing reception statuses of the plurality of MAC frames in response to the acknowledgement request frame. The apparatus also includes a transmitting device configured to transmit the acknowledgement frame. This acknowledgement frame includes a compressed acknowledgement frame representing an acknowledgement bitmap having a size equal to a maximum number of MSDUs (MAC Service Data Units) when one MPDU (MAC Protocol Data Unit) corresponds to one MSDU. | 02-25-2010 |
20100056069 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus receives a radio signal, compensates a frequency offset of received radio signal, stores, in a memory, a frequency offset of the received radio signal which includes an address used as a destination of a transmission signal, compensates a frequency of the transmission signal having the address as the destination by using the frequency offset stored in the memory, and transmits the transmission signal whose frequency is compensated. | 03-04-2010 |
20100074277 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A generation device generates a frame to be transmitted to a destination communication apparatus. The frame includes a first separation field, a first MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) following the first separation field, a second separation field following the first MPDU, a third separation field following the second separation field, and a third MPDU following the third separation field. The second separation field includes length information set to a value of zero to indicate no second MPDU directly follows the second separation field. The first MPDU includes a first MAC header, a first data field, and a first frame check sequence (FCS). The first FCS is for detecting an error occurred in at least the first data field. The third MPDU includes a third MAC header, a third data field, and a third FCS. The third FCS is for detecting an error occurred in at least the third data field. | 03-25-2010 |
20100080173 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A first storage stores a first number of streams which are capable of being demultiplexed by the wireless communication apparatus. A first acquisition unit acquires a second number of streams which are capable of being demultiplexed by a first wireless communication apparatus. A second acquisition unit acquires a third number of sum of streams of communications performed by the wireless communication apparatus and the first wireless communication apparatus. A second storage stores, if the first number of streams exceeds the third number of streams, a difference between the first and third numbers of streams as an allowable number of streams. A determination unit determines that a wireless medium is idle, in the case where a number of streams required for perform a new communication is not more than the allowable number of streams. | 04-01-2010 |
20100189056 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR WIRELESS LANS - A physical frame is generated and transmitted to a destination terminal. In this physical frame, one of a data frame, an acknowledgement frame, and an acknowledgement request frame, and a transmission permission frame which is used in place of a normal Ack frame associated with a delayed Block Ack, and permits the destination terminal to perform piggyback transmission, are aggregated. | 07-29-2010 |
20100232452 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus. | 09-16-2010 |
20110044257 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - By using multiple channels at the same time to realize broadbanding of the frequency channels and suppressing increase in the waiting time before starting transmission of wireless signals, improvement of the practical throughput can be realized. A wireless communication apparatus API is a wireless communication apparatus provided with a space division processing unit | 02-24-2011 |
20110044302 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a radio communication system that simultaneously uses plural radio channels (STA | 02-24-2011 |
20110064065 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus performs bi-directional communication with an initiator. The apparatus is allocated an allocation period for data transmission from the initiator. The apparatus includes means for generating a first physical frame including an acknowledgement frame with respect to data received from the initiator, and generating a second physical frame in which a plurality of transmission data frames addressed to the initiator are aggregated. The apparatus also includes means for transmitting the first physical frame at a first transmission rate and the second physical frame at a second transmission rate, during the allocation period. | 03-17-2011 |
20110228751 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wireless communication apparatus includes a first wireless communicator, a second wireless communicator, and a controller. The first wireless communicator transmits and receives a wireless signal according to a first communication protocol, and scans a notice signal during a predetermined scan term in a first cycle non-integer times at least one of notice signal cycles in the first communication protocol. The second wireless communicator transmits and receives the wireless signal according to a second communication protocol. The controller switches the second wireless communicator to an non-transmission state and the first wireless communicator to a reception state during the scan term. | 09-22-2011 |
20110280190 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Broadcast data is divided into a plurality of broadcast channels. Any of the plurality of broadcast channels is placed on a predetermined subcarrier in each of a plurality of main bands such that the placed broadcast channels differ from each other in a same frame and are consecutive in a predetermined order in a frame direction. The subcarriers are converted into a transmit RF signal and the transmit RF signal is transmitted. | 11-17-2011 |
20110317669 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a wireless station selection unit configured to select a connection destination wireless station from among a plurality of wireless stations. The wireless station selection unit includes a power calculation processing unit, a storage unit, a table update processing unit, and a power variation range detection processing unit. The power calculation processing unit is configured to calculate power of each receiving signal from each of the wireless stations. The storage unit is configured to store a table, and the power of each receiving signal equal to or more than a predetermined threshold is recorded in the table in association with each of the wireless stations. The table update processing unit is configured to update the table at a predetermined timing interval. The power variation range detection processing unit is configured to detect a variation range of the power for each of the wireless stations with reference to the table and configured to set the wireless station in which the variation range is within a predetermined range as a priority candidate of the connection destination wireless station. | 12-29-2011 |
20130259068 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus. | 10-03-2013 |