COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication apparatus or the like capable of simultaneously participating in two or more radio networks having different logic network configurations and preferably playing multiple roles. SOLUTION: The communication station having dual role shifts an access point function to an OFF state when it is not brought into a communication state using the access point function with the elapse of a predetermined time although a beacon signal is regularly transmitted, or when another communication station is not brought into a communication state using the access point function with the elapse of a predetermined time after the interruption of the communication state with peripheral communication stations in a communication state using the access point function. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT