Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication control method

A wireless communication apparatus comprising:

• an antenna, which, in operation, changes a beam pattern by using a plurality of antenna elements;
• a communicator, which, in operation, performs wireless communication with a communication terminal by using the antenna;
• quality information acquisition circuitry, which, in operation, acquires quality information indicating a communication quality of the wireless communication, wherein the quality information indicates a reception intensity of a signal transmitted from the communication terminal and received by the antenna;
• movement information acquisition circuitry, which, in operation, acquires movement information indicating movement of a relative position of the communication terminal with respect to the antenna;
• and
• beam control circuitry, which, in operation, controls the beam pattern to be changed by the antenna on the basis of the acquired quality information and movement information, wherein if a margin to an allowable minimum value of the reception intensity is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, a half-value angle of the beam pattern is increased.