Wireless communication apparatus and transmission frame control method
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsTomohiro Yui, Yuji Kuwahara, Yoshinao Kawai
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Abstract
A wireless communication apparatus which switches between plural wireless communication schemes that are different from each other in maximum transmission frame size includes a means for selecting one of the plural wireless communication schemes, a means for generating a transmission frame, a means for dividing the generated transmission frame if the size of the transmission frame is larger than a maximum transmission frame size of the selected wireless communication scheme, and a means for transmitting the transmission frame or divided transmission frames according to the selected wireless communication scheme.
Claims6
A wireless communication apparatus which performs a data transmission and reception while switching between plural wireless communication schemes that are different from each other in maximum transmission frame size, the wireless communication apparatus comprising:
- a scheme selector that selects one of the plural wireless communication schemes;
- a transmission frame generator that generates a transmission frame;
- a transmission frame divider that divides the transmission frame generated by the transmission frame generator if a size of the transmission frame is larger than a maximum transmission frame size of the wireless communication scheme selected by the scheme selector;
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- a wireless transmitter that transmits, according to the wireless communication scheme selected by the scheme selector, the transmission frame generated by the transmission frame generator or divided transmission frames generated by the transmission frame divider by dividing the transmission frame,
- wherein the transmission frame divider divides the transmission frame into the divided transmission frames each having a size that is smaller than or equal to the maximum transmission frame size of the wireless communication scheme selected by the scheme selector.
A transmission frame control method of a wireless communication apparatus which performs a data transmission and reception while switching between plural wireless communication schemes that are different from each other in maximum transmission frame size, the transmission frame control method comprising:
- a scheme selection step of selecting one of the plural wireless communication schemes;
- a transmission frame generating step of generating a transmission frame;
- a transmission frame dividing step of dividing the transmission frame generated by the transmission frame generating step if a size of the transmission frame is larger than a maximum transmission frame size of the wireless communication scheme selected by the scheme selection step;
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- a wireless transmission step of transmitting, according to the wireless communication scheme selected by the scheme selection step, the transmission frame generated by the transmission frame generating step or divided transmission frames generated by the transmission frame dividing step by dividing the transmission frame,
- wherein in the transmission frame dividing step, the transmission frame is divided into the divided transmission frames each having a size that is smaller than or equal to the maximum transmission frame size of the wireless communication scheme selected by the scheme selection step.
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