A technique capable of improving the communication throughput while
maintaining the interchangeability with a radio communication system or
radio communication method employing carrier sense in a conventional
multiple access system is disclosed and, on the basis of this technique,
a radio communication terminal accommodating apparatus determines the
allocation order of communication right permitting the occupation of a
radio transmission medium with respect to each of a plurality of radio
transmission terminals and transmits a multiple-polling signal 311
including information on this order to the plurality of radio
communication terminals at an arbitrary transmission timing acquired
through the carrier sense. Thus, each of communication right time periods
(communication right time periods 312 to 314) for which the occupation of
the radio transmission medium is permissible is allocated to each of the
plurality of radio communication terminals. In addition, a time
sufficiently shorter than a guard time (carrier sense time) in a
conventional system is employed as a time interval between communication
right time periods adjacent to each other.