| US 7,561,525 B2 | ||
| Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program | ||
| Shin Saito, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jun. 13, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/150,229. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-207714 (JP), filed on Jul. 14, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0013177 A1, Jan. 19, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01R 31/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G08C 15/00 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04J 3/14 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04B 3/36 (2006.01); H04B 7/14 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—237 [370/229; 370/238; 455/7; 455/16] | 21 Claims |
| 1. A wireless communication system for performing multi-hop transmission between stations, the wireless communication system
comprising:
a requesting station for requesting multi-hop transmission;
a destination station which receives the request from the requesting station; and
neighbor stations,
wherein the requesting station determines a communication capacity for each neighbor station of the requesting station and
transmits a routing request message in which communication capacity information is described to each neighbor station of the
requesting station,
each neighbor station that receives the routing request message transmits the routing request message to each of its own neighbor
stations, and
based on the communication capacity information described in the routing request message received from each neighbor station
of the destination station, the destination station determines which routing request message to respond to and performs routing.
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