Internet of everything device relay discovery and selection

A wireless communication device, comprising:

• a transceiver configured to:
• listen for transmissions of one or more other wireless communication devices during a broadcast time of one or more discovery slots of a discovery frame;
• broadcast a discovery message in a first discovery slot of the discovery frame if no transmissions of the one or more other wireless communication devices are received during the first discovery slot;
• and
• receive an association message from a second wireless communication device during an association time period, wherein the second wireless communication device selected the wireless communication device as a relay device based on the discovery message broadcast during the first discovery slot of the discovery frame.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code recorded thereon, the program code comprising:

• code for causing a first internet of everything (IoE) device to receive discovery messages from one or more other IoE devices during a discovery time period;
• code for causing the first IoE device to select a relay device from among the one or more other IoE devices meeting data latency and energy parameters based on the received discovery messages;
• and
• code for causing the first IoE device to associate with the selected relay device during an association time period.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code recorded thereon, the program code comprising:

• code for causing a first internet of everything (IoE) device to listen for transmissions of one or more other IoE devices during a broadcast time of one or more discovery slots of a discovery frame;
• code for causing the first IoE device to broadcast a discovery message in a first discovery slot of the discovery frame if no transmissions of the one or more other IoE devices are heard during the first discovery slot;
• and
• code for causing the first IoE device to associate with a second IoE device during an association time period, wherein the second IoE device selected the first IoE device as a relay device based on the discovery message broadcast by the first IoE device during the first discovery slot of the discovery frame.