Apparatus, system and method of setting up a connection for communication between NAN devices

A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a first Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device to:

• discover a second NAN device during a Discovery Window (DW) shared by devices of a NAN cluster having a cluster Time synchronization Function (TSF), the NAN cluster comprising the first and second NAN devices;
• transmit a first NAN frame to the second NAN device, the first NAN frame comprising a first attribute comprising first availability information to indicate at least one first channel and one or more first time slots during which the first NAN device is to be available for communication over the at least one first channel, the one or more first time slots are after the DW;
• receive a second NAN frame from the second NAN device, the second NAN frame comprising a second attribute comprising second availability information to indicate at least one second channel and one or more second time slots during which the second NAN device is to be available for communication over the at least one second channel;
• set up a connection with the second NAN device according to a schedule comprising one or more common time slots and a common channel, the one or more common time slots are common to the one or more first time slots and the one or more second time slots, the common channel is common to the at least one first channel and the at least one second channel, wherein the one or more common time slots are synchronized to the TSF of the NAN cluster comprising the first and second NAN devices;
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• communicate data with the second NAN device according to the schedule.

An apparatus for a first Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device, the apparatus comprising:

• means for discovering a second NAN device during a Discovery Window (DW) based on a cluster Time synchronization Function (TSF) of a NAN cluster comprising the first and second NAN devices;
• means for transmitting a first NAN frame to the second NAN device, the first NAN frame comprising a first attribute comprising first availability information to indicate at least one first channel and one or more first time slots during which the first NAN device is to be available for communication over the at least one first channel, the one or more first time slots are after the DW;
• means for receiving a second NAN frame from the second NAN device, the second NAN frame comprising a second attribute comprising second availability information to indicate at least one second channel and one or more second time slots during which the second NAN device is to be available for communication over the at least one second channel;
• means for setting up a connection with the second NAN device according to a schedule comprising one or more common time slots and a common channel, the one or more common time slots are common to the one or more first time slots and the one or more second time slots, the common channel is common to the at least one first channel and the at least one second channel, wherein the one or more common time slots are synchronized to the TSF of the NAN cluster comprising the first and second NAN devices;
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• means for communicating data with the second NAN device according to the schedule.