In addition, in case of excess of the reception power of the packet not addressed to the own-device over the sleep determination power threshold, the control unit 160 shifts the packet monitoring state to the sleep state 304 (shown in FIG. 2) for a period specified in accordance with a size of the packet to come into a sleep state. For example, the period specified in accordance with the size of the packet not addressed to the own-device herein may be a sum of a period until an end of the packet not addressed to the own-device, and a predetermined period. For example, the predetermined period may be any one of SIFS, DIFS, and a transmission period of a response signal for the packet not addressed to the own-device (e.g. transmission period of ACK).
In addition, the control unit 160 may specify an end of a packet not addressed to the own-device with reference to Length stored in the PHY header 171 (shown in FIG. 3) of the packet.