APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF PREVENTING DEVICE ADDRESS FROM CONFLICTING IN WIMEDIA MAC

摘要

An apparatus for preventing a device address from conflicting in a WiMedia media access control (MAC), the apparatus including: a device address conflict determination unit which determines whether a conflict between a device address of the apparatus and alien device addresses included in a received alien beacon occurs; a device address generation unit which regenerates the device address of the apparatus when the conflict occurs and a beacon group of the apparatus is not a reference beacon group; a device address information generation unit which generates information about the regenerated device address of the apparatus; and a device information update unit which updates device information of the beacon group of the apparatus, when a beacon including information about a regenerated device address of the apparatus is received from another device included in the beacon group of the apparatus.