COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

A master station device (1) switches a sleep state and an operation state in synchronization with a slave station device. A communication scenario management unit (28) manages a communication scenario in which one or more data communication procedures among a data communication procedure for data communication by polling, a data communication procedure for push data communication, a data communication procedure for participation in a communication network, and a data communication procedure for shift to a sleep state are described as an execution data communication procedure that is executed in the operation state and an execution order of the one or more execution data communication procedures is further described, and which is shared with the slave station device. A data communication procedure execution unit (101) executes the one or more execution data communication procedures described in the communication scenario with the slave station device in the execution order described in the communication scenario, every time the sleep state is switched to the operation state.