COMMUNICATION-DEVICE SEARCHING METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION-DEVICE SEARCHING PROGRAM, AND AD HOC NETWORK SYSTEM

摘要

In a communication-device searching method for searching for communication devices which configure an ad hoc network with which communication over a plurality of channels is possible, a search-source mobile terminal (1), which searches for the communication devices, transmits, over a plurality of channels, a search request having a search-destination communication device as the destination address, without waiting for a response to the search request, if a communication device (21) proximate to the search-source mobile terminal (1) receives, from the search destination, a response to the search request transmitted by the transmission process, the communication device (21) holds the received response, and the search-source mobile terminal (1) sends an inquiry to the proximate communication device (21) over a plurality of channels to inquire whether the response to the transmitted search request was received from the search destination. As a result, search time associated with communication devices at other destinations in a reactive ad hoc network capable of communicating over a plurality of channels can be reduced.