RELAY APPARATUS AND WIRELESS CONTROL NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve communication reliability and prevent degradation in throughput for a wireless network system, which performs wireless communications according to a wireless communication standard for process control and a wireless communication standard different from the standard. SOLUTION: The relay apparatus relays a first wireless communication in accordance with a wireless communication standard for process control and a second wireless communication in accordance with a wireless communication standard different from the standard. The relay apparatus includes a super frame managing means and a transmitting means. The super frame management means generates a super frame for the second wireless communication, based on a timing schedule of the first wireless communication received from outside and a super frame for the first wireless communication showing frequencies or frequency bands of wireless communication assigned by each timing. The transmitting mean transmits the super frame for the second wireless communication to a wireless communication terminal for performing the second wireless communication. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT