Communication control related to intermediate stations

Abstract

The present invention provides a communication control device and the like that appropriately controls communication between base stations and intermediate stations that interconnect communication devices. [Solution] In a wireless communication system, at least one processor of the communication control device 3 switches between a base station mode in which intermediate station INT, which interconnects base stations 111, 121, 131 and the communication device 2, functions as a base station for the communication device, and a relay station mode in which it relays communication radio waves between the base station and the communication device, using a mode switching unit. The connection control unit 32 also switches between a base station priority mode in which, among the intermediate stations that interconnect the base station and the communication device, the communication device is preferentially connected to a base station type intermediate station that functions as a base station for the communication device, rather than to a relay station type intermediate station that relays the communication radio waves of the base station, and a relay station priority mode in which the communication device is preferentially connected to a relay station type intermediate station rather than a base station type intermediate station.

Claims

1. A communication control device comprising at least one processor that performs the following actions by a connection control unit: among intermediate stations that interconnect a base station and a communication device, a base station type intermediate station that functions as a base station for the communication device, is given priority over a relay station type intermediate station that relays the communication radio waves of the base station.

2. A communication control device comprising at least one processor that performs the following actions by a connection control unit: to connect a communication device to a relay station type intermediate station that relays the communication radio waves of the base station, with priority given to connecting the communication device to the relay station type intermediate station that relays the communication radio waves of the base station, rather than to a base station type intermediate station that functions as a base station for the communication device.

3. The communication control device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the connection control unit switches between a base station priority mode, which preferentially connects the communication device to the base station type intermediate station rather than the relay station type intermediate station, and a relay station priority mode, which preferentially connects the communication device to the relay station type intermediate station rather than the base station type intermediate station.

4. A communication control method comprising switching between a base station priority mode, which prioritizes connecting a communication device to a base station type intermediate station that functions as a base station for the communication device, and a relay station priority mode, which prioritizes connecting the communication device to a relay station type intermediate station rather than a relay station type intermediate station that relays the communication radio waves of the base station, among the intermediate stations that interconnect a base station and a communication device.

5. A storage medium storing a communication control program that causes a computer to switch between a base station priority mode, which prioritizes connecting a communication device to a base station-type intermediate station that functions as a base station for the communication device, and a relay station priority mode, which prioritizes connecting the communication device to a relay station-type intermediate station rather than a relay station-type intermediate station that relays the communication radio waves of the base station, among the intermediate stations that interconnect base stations and communication devices.

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