COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, TERMINAL STATION, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THAT HAS RECORDED THE SAME

摘要

A wireless communication system (1) determines, based on a beacon signal periodically transmitted from a base station (10), a terminal station (30) from the base station (10), and uses a beacon signal to notify the determined terminal station (30) of whether there exists data to be transmitted to the terminal station (30) and of the transmission period of the next beacon signal. A terminal side wireless communication part (36) of the terminal station (30) transmits to the base station (10) a request of establishing the transmission period of the beacon signal. A communication control part (15) of the base station (10) establishes, based on the request received from the terminal station (30), the transmission period of the beacon signal. In this way, the terminal station (30) can optimize its beacon reception period, so that the power consumption can be suppressed by stopping a power supply from a power supply part (43) to a communication circuit (40) until a timing of receiving the beacon signal.