Channel selection method of a wireless communication system

摘要

To provide a channel selection method of a wireless communication system which enables a wireless station to select a wireless channel dynamically even when there are but an insufficient number of wireless channels, a channel selection method of selecting a wireless channel from a plurality of wireless channels prepared for the wireless communication system comprises: a channel search step (202) of checking whether any one of the plurality of wireless channels is left unused by other wireless stations of the wireless communication system or not; a sharing channel selection step (207) of selecting a wireless channel to be shared from wireless channels under use of the other wireless stations, said sharing channel selection step being performed when every of the plurality of wireless channels is found (205) to be under use of one of the other wireless stations at the channel search step; and a link establishment step of establishing the wireless link by sharing the wireless channel selected at the sharing channel selection step.