Wireless communication system, control apparatus, communication method switching method, and program

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8594020
APP PUB NO 20110267970A1
SERIAL NO

13058668

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A wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations that can switch to either first or second communication method and that communicates wirelessly with terminals by the switched communication method and a control apparatus that manages the plurality of base stations. The control apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from each base station, throughput of the base station and RSSI of each terminal that communicates wirelessly with the base station; and a switch instruction unit that instructs to each base station switch the current communication method when there is, among the plurality of base stations, a base station in which throughput has decreased within fixed interval, and instructs to re-switch to the communication method before switching to base stations in which throughput before and after switching of communication method is same but a specific standard, based on RSSI after switching of communication method, is not satisfied.

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NEC PLATFORMS LTDKAWASAKI-SHI KANAGAWA 213-8511

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Okamoto, Tsukasa Shizuoka, JP 4 4
Yahagi, Masahiko Tokyo, JP 45 603

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