A wireless communication system capable of saving time for mutual data
communication in a sniff mode. The wireless communication system has: a
master apparatus for calculating a sniff parameter including a time of a
sniff period capable of performing the communication by allowing a
corresponding device to commonly have the time in the sniff mode, when a
communication mode for a mutual data communication by a user is selected
to be operated in the sniff mode; and a sniff slave apparatus for
performing the mutual data communication with the master apparatus by
commonly having a corresponding time calculated in accordance with the
sniff parameter. At this time, the sniff parameter includes at least one
among a cyclic information, an allocated time information of the sniff
period, and a start time information in which the master apparatus
communicates with the sniff slave apparatus operated in the sniff mode.