RADIO PACKET COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO PACKET COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

摘要

A plurality of types of available transmission rates to be used for transmission of data packets are individually managed for each receiver terminal. When there are a plurality of data packets to be transmitted onto a transmission buffer and when it is possible to transmit said plurality of data packets simultaneously, the packet sizes representative of the data amounts of the respective data packets are referred to as well as the transmission rates of the respective data packets associated with the receiver terminals. The packet time lengths (transmission times) defined by the packet sizes and transmission rates are checked for the respective data packets. A plurality of data packets whose packet time lengths are approximately equal to each other are selected regardless of their receiver terminals. The transmissions of the plurality of selected data packets are commenced simultaneously by use of a plurality of radio channels.