SUPPRESSION OF DISCOVERY OF MOBILE DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

Technologies are generally described for suppressing discovery of mobile devices in a wireless ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) network, reducing the number of network transmissions by devices in the network and reducing network congestion and prolonging battery life. A mobile device may add supplementary information to introductory beacons transmitted by the device that indicate no response is necessary from other devices participating in the network except for a coordinator of the network. The mobile device may transmit a malformed introductory beacon that will be ignored by other devices in the network except for the coordinator. The coordinator of the wireless network may detect the mobile device moving through the network and transmit a suppression signal to other devices in the network causing the devices to ignore the introductory beacons transmitted by the mobile device.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method that reduces network transmissions in a wireless network, the method comprising:
suppressing, by a computing device, a response of a wireless network device to an introductory beacon transmitted by a mobile device after receiving a signal from a coordinating device of the wireless network to ignore an introductory beacon.