Method and apparatus for managing device discovery in wireless system

摘要

A method and apparatus for managing device discovery in a wireless system are provided. The method includes performing a periodic search operation to discover a peer device, stopping the periodic search operation upon discovering a suitable peer device, and switching to a periodic listening operation for allowing the Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) Peer-To-Peer (P2P) device to be discovered by the discovered peer device and for permitting a connection with the discovered peer device.