RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL ACCOMMODATING APPARATUS

摘要

A technique capable of improving the communication throughput while maintaining the interchangeability with a radio communication system or radio communication method employing carrier sense in a conventional multiple access system is disclosed and, on the basis of this technique, a radio communication terminal accommodating apparatus determines the allocation order of communication right permitting the occupation of a radio transmission medium with respect to each of a plurality of radio transmission terminals and transmits a multiple-polling signal 311 including information on this order to the plurality of radio communication terminals at an arbitrary transmission timing acquired through the carrier sense. Thus, each of communication right time periods (communication right time periods 312 to 314) for which the occupation of the radio transmission medium is permissible is allocated to each of the plurality of radio communication terminals. In addition, a time sufficiently shorter than a guard time (carrier sense time) in a conventional system is employed as a time interval between communication right time periods adjacent to each other.