Retransmission control and retransmission are performed at a lower priority than the transmission of multicast packets from a transmission apparatus to two or more reception apparatuses. A communication apparatus performs wireless multicast transmission to reliable transmit packets. In a transmission side terminal, sequence numbers are attached at a layer higher than the Mac layer to each of secured-bandwidth or priority control-type Mac layer multicast packets, and in a plurality of reception side terminals, missing packets are detected using the sequence numbers, and bandwidth other than the secured bandwidth or lower priority packets are used to perform retransmission requests. The transmission terminal retransmits data using bandwidth other than the secured bandwidth or lower priority packets, thereby enabling favorable reception of audio, video and data when transmitting the audio, video and data in real-time to the reception terminals using wireless secured bandwidth-type or priority control-type Mac layer multicast transmission.