System and method for joining neighbor awareness networking hidden clusters

摘要

Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between in a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) cluster. A first communication device may be participating in a hidden NAN cluster and a second communication device may seek to join the hidden NAN cluster. The second communication device may broadcast a discovery beacon that includes an identifier of the hidden NAN cluster in a field of the discovery beacon that is associated with a transmitter address. If the first communication device detects such a discovery beacon, the first communication device may transmit a synchronization beacon having timing information associated with the hidden NAN cluster. If the second communication device detects the synchronization beacon, the second communication device may synchronize with the hidden NAN cluster. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry to determine an identification value for a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) cluster and to generate a discovery beacon that includes the identification value in a first field that is associated with a transmitter address, wherein the discovery beacon includes a second field associated with a cluster identifier; and transmitter circuitry, coupled with the processing circuitry, to wirelessly transmit the discovery beacon using a channel associated with the NAN cluster to join the NAN cluster, wherein the NAN cluster is hidden such that the NAN cluster is not advertised through discovery beacons.