A radio channel allocation apparatus of a node in a radio communication system which controls to allocate a radio channel between nodes by a virtual carrier sense is disclosed. The radio channel allocation apparatus includes a node information collecting unit which collects information of a neighboring node to which the node can directly transmit data, and a radio channel determining unit that determines a radio channel, which is allocated to a communication link between a node which has transmission inhibition conditions and another node which does not have the transmission inhibition conditions by communications between predetermined nodes. The determined radio channel is a different radio channel from a radio channel between the predetermined nodes, based on node information of the node and the neighboring node.