RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD

摘要

There is disclosed a radio communication device capable of measuring a different carrier without lowering the throughput. In this device, a packet continuation judgment unit (121) observes user packet data and judges whether packets destined to the local station are continuously received or halted. When the packet continuation judgment unit (121) judges a packet halt, a different carrier measurement suppression unit (122) generates a signal to permit a different carrier measurement. When the judgment result shows the packet continuation, the signal permitting a different carrier measurement is not generated. When the different carrier measurement is permitted, a different carrier reception timing setting unit (112) reports the timing to switch the carrier to a carrier switching control unit (113) and to a carrier reception quality measurement unit (110), so that the carrier switching control unit (113) controls carrier switching of an RF reception unit (102) at the timing and the reception quality of the carrier switched is measured by the carrier reception quality measurement unit (110).