Wireless communication system, control device, access point, and terminal device

A control device comprising:

• reception circuitry that receives, from a first access point, information on a connection request that one or more terminal devices have transmitted to the first access point in order to connect, by a wireless link, one of the first access point or a second access point each having a superframe in an initial state in which a control channel period is longer than a data channel period;
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• control circuitry that performs control in which information indicating the second access point as information on a connection destination access point is transmitted as a connection response from the first access point to the one or more terminal devices that have transmitted the connection request.

A first access point, the first access point being among a plurality of access points including a second access point, the first access point comprising:

• first transmission circuitry that transmits, to a control device, information on a connection request that one or more terminal devices have transmitted to the first access point in order to connect, by a wireless link, one of the first access point or the second access point each having a superframe in an initial state in which a control channel period is longer than a data channel period;
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• second transmission circuitry that transmits, as a connection response, information indicating the second access point as information on a connection destination access point to the one or more terminal devices that have transmitted the connection request.

A terminal device comprising:

• transmission circuitry that transmits a connection request to a first access point in order to connect, by a wireless link, with one of the first access point or a second access point each having a superframe in an initial state in which a control channel period is longer than a data channel period;
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• reception circuitry that receives, as a connection response, information indicating the second access point as information on a connection destination access point from the first access point after the connection request is transmitted.