Reduced frame collision wireless communication system having communication device mode switching

A communication system having reduced wireless frame collision, comprising:

• a plurality of communication devices each of which selectively operates as any one of a control station, a dependent station and a dependent control station, said control station being a communication device which controls communication conducted in a network established by the control station itself, said dependent station being a communication device which participates in a network established by other communication device, and said dependent control station being a communication device which participates in a network established by an other communication device, establishes a dependent network synchronized with the network established by the other communication device and controls communication conducted in the dependent network established by the dependent control station itself,
• wherein a second communication device is configured to operate as a dependent station of a first communication device configured to operate as a control station of a first network,
• said second communication device comprises:
• a detection unit configured to detect a third communication device that started operation as another control station of a second network which is not synchronized with the first network and wherein collision of wireless frames between the first and second networks occur;
• and
• a control unit configured to switch said second communication device such that said second communication device works as a dependent control station which is controlled by said first communication device in the first network and which establishes and controls a dependent network dependent on the first network so as to synchronize communication in the second network with communication in the first network through the dependent network and wherein wireless frame collision is suppressed between the first network and the second network having said synchronized communication, when said third communication device is detected,
• wherein said control unit of said second communication device is configured to determine whether said third communication device requests said second communication device to participate in the dependent network established by said second communication device within a predetermined time of when said second communication device starts working as a dependent control station, and
• wherein said control unit of said second communication device is configured to re-switch said second communication device from the dependent control station to a dependent station if said third communication device does not request said second communication device to participate in the dependent network established by said second communication device within the predetermined time, and configured to make said second communication device to continue working as the dependent control station if said third communication device requests said second communication device to participate in the dependent network established by said second communication device within the predetermined time,
• said third communication device comprises:
• a detection unit configured to detect said second communication device switched to the dependent control station;
• and
• a control unit configured to confirm whether a dependent station participating in the second network exists when said detection unit of the third communication device detects said second communication device working as the dependent control station, is configured to request said second communication device to participate in the dependent network as a dependent control station of an other dependent network dependant on the dependent network if the confirmation results in that a dependent station participating in the second network exists, and is configured to request said second communication station to participate in the dependent network as a dependent station of the dependent network if the confirmation results in that a dependent station participating in the second network does not exists.