Patent attributes
A communication device used in a wireless system that includes plural communication devices and executes communication via at least one of the plural communication devices. The communication device includes: first means for judging whether communication control information can be compressed or not on the basis of a neighboring node search message among the plural communication devices and a response thereto, or the exchange of routing control information according to an ad hoc routing protocol; and second means for compressing the information volume of the communication control information by judging the contents of the communication control information and deleting or replacing redundant information or constantly fixed information if the communication control information can be compressed.
