A communication control method for controlling a communication apparatus for use in a communication system capable of communicating among a plurality of communication apparatuses via a plurality of repeater stations, characterized in that the communication apparatus comprises a memory configurable to store information, as communication path setting information, wherein the name of the repeater station, identification information of the repeater station and identification information of a gateway to which the repeater station belongs for each of a plurality of repeater stations are included and associated with each other, and the communication control method comprises:
- an information inputting step of inputting a name of a first repeater station to which a source communication apparatus belongs, and a name of a second repeater station to which a destination communication apparatus belongs, wherein the name of the first repeater is associated with identification information of the first repeater and the name of the second repeater is associated with identification information of the second repeater;
- an information retrieving step of
- retrieving names of the repeater stations matching with the names of the first and the second repeater stations inputted from the input step, and then identification information of the repeater stations and identification information of the gateways based on the retrieved names of the repeater stations in the communication path setting information, and
- acquiring the retrieved identification information as identification information of the first repeater station, identification information of the second repeater station, identification information of the gateway to which the first repeater station belongs and identification information of the gateway to which the second repeater station belongs;
- a gateway determining step of determining whether the retrieved identification information of the gateway to which the first repeater station belongs matches with the retrieved identification information of the gateway to which the second repeater station belongs;
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- a communication frame generating step of generating a communication frame which includes information regarded as identification information of the source repeater station and information regarded as identification information of the destination repeater station, wherein
- the communication frame generating step generates the communication frame by
- setting the retrieved identification information of the first repeater station as information regarded as identification information of the source repeater station included in the communication frame,
- setting the retrieved identification information of the second repeater station as information regarded as identification information of the destination repeater station included in the communication frame when the gateway determining step determines that the retrieved identification information of the gateway to which the first repeater station belongs matches with the retrieved identification information of the gateway to which the second repeater station belongs, and
- setting the retrieved identification information of the gateway to which the first repeater station belongs as information regarded as identification information of the destination repeater station included in the communication frame when the gateway determining step determines that there is no match,
- wherein the name of the second repeater station inputted from the input unit is inputted as information specifying at least identification information of the destination communication apparatus;
- the communication frame includes information regarded as identification information of the destination communication apparatus;
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- the communication frame generating section is further configurable to set identification information of an unspecified radio device, which is the identification information indicating that the destination communication apparatus is the unspecified radio device, as information regarded as identification information of the destination communication apparatus included in the communication frame when the gateway determining section determines that the identification information of the gateway to which the first repeater station belongs matches with the identification information of the gateway to which the second repeater station belongs, and
- the communication frame generating section is further configurable to set information including the retrieved identification information of the second repeater station as information regarded as identification information of the destination communication apparatus included in the communication frame when the gateway determining section determines that there is no match.