Method and Apparatus for Negotiating Master Station
AssigneeHuawei Device Co., Ltd.
InventorsXilei Liu, Zhiming Ding, Yongli Yang, Guiming Shu
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for negotiating a master station are disclosed. The method includes receiving from a master station a management frame that carries a master identity; obtaining a maximum time interval between receiving of the management frame and receiving of a next management frame from the master station; and determining, according to a preset policy, a local station itself as a new master station if no more management frame is received after the maximum time interval.
Claims20
A method for negotiating a master station, the method comprising:
- receiving from the master station a management frame that carries a master identity;
- obtaining a maximum time interval between receiving the management frame and receiving a next management frame from the master station;
- and
- determining, according to a preset policy, a local station as a new master station if no more management frame is received after the maximum time interval.
An apparatus for negotiating a master station, the apparatus comprising:
- a receiving module, configured to receive from a master station a management frame that carries a master identity;
- an obtaining module, configured to obtain a maximum time interval between receiving of the management frame and receiving of a next management frame from the master station;
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- a negotiating module, configured to determine, according to a preset policy, a local station itself as a new master station if the receiving module receives no more management frame after the maximum time interval obtained by the obtaining module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.