| 摘要 |
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and an apparatus for implementing a decentralized clustering mechanism. The method includes: reserving, by a first wireless device located on a first channel, multiple first scheduled service periods from a first data transfer interval; switching, by the first wireless device, the first wireless device to a second channel within the first scheduled service periods, and transmitting a probe frame over the second channel, where the probe frame includes a cluster probe information element; reserving, by the first wireless device, multiple second scheduled service periods corresponding to the first scheduled service periods from a second data transfer interval according to timing information included in the cluster probe information element; when a response frame transmitted by a second wireless device is received within the second scheduled service periods, identifying, by the first wireless device by using an extended cluster report information element included in the response frame, whether an empty beacon scheduled service period exists; and if the empty beacon scheduled service period exists, transmitting, by the first wireless device, a beacon frame within the empty beacon scheduled service period, so that the first wireless device joins a decentralized cluster in which the second wireless device is located. |
