CROSS-LAYER CONTEXT MANAGEMENT

摘要

In peer-to-peer (P2P) communications, it has been recognized herein that various context information needs to be exchanged between peer devices (PDs) or between different layers/protocols within a peer device (PD). Various embodiments described herein address how to design effective management functions, services, and primitives for context management across and/or within different protocol layers to enable context-aware peer-to-peer communications in proximity. This disclosure proposes multiple embodiments for cross-layer context management in context-aware peer-to-peer communication in proximity. For example, embodiments described herein provide context management to efficiently enable context-aware P2P communications, such as, for example, social networks.

主权项

1. At a first peer device comprising a processor, a memory, and communication circuitry, the first peer device being connected to a communications network via its communication circuitry, the first peer device further comprising computer-executable instructions stored in the memory of the first peer device which, when executed by the processor of the first peer device, cause the first peer device to:
at a higher layer above a medium access control (MAC) layer in a protocol stack of the first peer device, initiate a request associated with context information; send, via a context manger, a first primitive associated with the request to the MAC layer; and in response to the first primitive, receive a second primitive at the higher layer, the second primitive indicating a result associated with the request.