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Wireless LAN system and base station apparatus

US5822361A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 8, 1995
Grant dateOct 13, 1998
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Expiry dateNov 8, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W92/20
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A wireless LAN system which allows the transmission and reception of various data without lowering the transmission efficiency and the transmission quality even in an overlapping environment of areas of a plurality of wireless LANs and a base station apparatus therefor are provided. The wireless LAN system has a plurality of wireless LANs including base stations and wireless terminal devices, and the base stations and the wireless terminal devices in the wireless LANs communicate while sequentially hopping carrier frequencies to conduct the intercommunication between the base stations in the wireless LANs through inter-base station communication units. Each base station includes a unit for transmitting and receiving a specific frame to and from other base stations through the inter-base station communication unit to determine whether its own base station is a master base station or not and a unit for assigning different hopping start frequencies to its own base station and other base stations when its own base station is determined as the master base station.

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