A wireless communications system including a base station and a terminal, the wireless communications system capable of communications between terminals through a first path and communications between terminals through a second path which different the first path, the wireless communications system includes: a plurality of terminals; and the base station including to: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to process related to proximity-based communications between a plurality of terminals; obtain identifiers of the terminal and information enables determination of whether to use the second path.