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US 2006/0234740 A1Published application
Communication method, communication device, and computer program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKazuyuki Sakoda
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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKazuyuki Sakoda
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In order to solve a problem of an accumulation on the transmission side, a delay on the reception side, and the like at the time of transmission in a communication system such as a wireless LAN system, each communication station in a network transmits a beacon in which information with respect to the network is written and sets a state in which a reception operation is performed during periods of time before and after the transmission of the beacon signal when performing access control not to make communication timing of a packet collide with that of another station by detecting a signal transmitted from another station. With performing such processing, a system can be formed based on minimum level of transmission and reception operation when transmission and reception data does not exist in each communication station in the network, and also a data transfer can be performed with latency as small as possible in a minimum necessary level of transmission and reception operation by making a transition of a transmission and reception state in accordance with a fluctuating volume of transmission and reception data.
A communication method of performing a wireless communication operation in a network including a plurality of communication stations having no relation of a control station and a controlled station, comprising the steps of:
A communication apparatus which operates in a network built under a wireless communication environment of an autonomous distributed type, comprising:
A computer program in which processing of performing access control not to make communication timing of a packet collide with that of another station by detecting a signal transmitted from another station in a network including a plurality of communication stations is written in a computer readable form so that the program is executed on a computer system, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.