Abstract:
Systems and methods for formatting frames in neighborhood aware networks are described herein. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a method of communicating in a wireless neighborhood aware network (NAN). The method includes determining a discovery period. The method further includes generating a discovery window information element indicating a start time of a discovery window. The method further includes generating a NAN beacon or other sync frame comprising the discovery period and the discovery window information element. The method further includes transmitting, at a wireless device, the NAN beacon or other sync frame during the discovery window.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to using bloom filter hash functions for service hint information in advertisements such as beacons and probe responses. Certain aspects provide an apparatus for wireless communications, such as an access point (AP). The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to generate a plurality of bitmaps that indicate one or more services known by the apparatus, each bitmap being generated by applying a different set of one or more cyclic redundancy check (CRC) based hash functions to one or more service identifications (IDs) of each service, and to generate one or more frames, each frame including one of the plurality of bitmaps and an indication of the set of one or more CRC based hash functions used to generate the bitmap included in the frame, and an interface configured to output the one or more frames for transmission.
Abstract:
A method includes generating, at a first device, a paging message. The method includes, during a first transmission window of a data link group of a neighbor aware network (NAN), sending the paging message from the first device to one or more devices of the data link group. The method further includes, during a second transmission window of the data link group and prior to a data window of the second transmission window, sending data traffic to a particular device of the one or more devices without sending a traffic announcement to the particular device during a second paging window of the second transmission window.
Abstract:
A method includes receiving, at a first station of a peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network, a data packet transmitted from a second station of the peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network. The method also includes determining whether to retransmit the data packet to at least one other station in the peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network or whether to suppress retransmission of the data packet based on received signal strengths of received retransmissions of the same data packets from one or more nearby stations.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a wireless communications device. The device may use several antennas to receive a signal, one of which may be shared between two radios. During signal reception, a radio may detect when the shared antenna is abruptly taken over by the other radio. The radio may detect the loss of the antenna by measuring an impedance mismatch. Alternatively, the radio may reference an antenna switch control that is used to facilitate the switch. After detection, the radio may recover from the antenna loss by adjusting signal processing. For example, the radio may modify a maximal ratio combining (MRC) operation. In certain examples, the device may disregard the signal version from the shared antenna in the computation of MRC weights. In some cases, the device may interrupt an MRC weight computation and use MRC weights from a previous calculation.
Abstract:
A method for registering a service for proxy advertisement includes selecting, at a client device, a proxy device to proxy advertise the service of the client device to one or more other devices in a network. The method also includes sending registration data from the client device to the proxy device.
Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for receiving queued downlink (DL) data. In accordance with example embodiments, a first wireless device may receive, from a second wireless device, a beacon frame indicating a presence of queued DL data for concurrent delivery to a plurality of wireless devices. The first wireless device may receive permission to request delivery of the queued DL data. The first wireless device may transmit, to the second wireless device, a request for delivery of the queued DL data based on the permission. The first wireless device may then receive the queued DL data from the second wireless device.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for managing possible mergers between neighbor-aware or social Wi-Fi network clusters in a wireless network. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, at a device of a group supported by a first wireless network cluster, a neighboring wireless network cluster. The method further includes joining the neighboring wireless network cluster while remaining in the first wireless network cluster. The method further includes determining whether to stay with either the neighboring wireless network cluster or the first wireless network cluster based on information from the neighboring wireless network cluster or the first wireless network cluster. The method further includes announcing a decision to leave the first wireless network cluster or the neighboring wireless network cluster.
Abstract:
A first wireless device may receive a ranging proxy indicator from a candidate ranging proxy and identify a first ranging indicator based at least in part on the ranging proxy indicator. The first ranging indicator may indicate a proximity of the first wireless device to the candidate ranging proxy. The first wireless device may receive a second ranging indicator indicating a proximity of a second wireless device to the candidate ranging proxy. The first wireless device may identify that the first wireless device and the second wireless device are within a proximity threshold based at least in part on the first ranging indicator and the second ranging indicator.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described for determination of a route through a geographic area using neighbor awareness network (NAN) devices. A plurality of NAN devices may be distributed throughout a geographic area and may monitor the environmental conditions of their respective locations. The NAN devices may relay the environmental condition information to a route determining device, which may determine a route through the geographic area. The determined route may be based at least in part on the environmental condition information received from the NAN devices. The route determined route may be communicated to a mobile target associated with the geographic area.