COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

摘要

A communication apparatus (100-1, 100-2) according to an embodiment of the invention comprises: a communication unit (102) that performs radio communications over a channel having a predetermined bandwidth; a channel setting unit (103) that sets, on the basis of a radio reception resulting from a channel scan, a channel the bandwidth of which overlaps that of another channel over which broadcast information repetitively broadcasted by a first external apparatus at predetermined intervals is transmitted; and a control unit (103) that causes radio transmissions to or radio receptions from a second external apparatus over the set channel to be intermittently executed in synchronization with the broadcast information detected by radio receptions over the set channel.