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US 2013/0294232 A1Published application
Wireless discovery using a reduced traffic load process
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsJonathan Segev, Adrian P. Stephens, Emily H. Qi, Xiaohong X. Gong, Minyoung Park
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Abstract
Traffic load over a wireless medium due to wireless access point discovery is reduced. The wireless stations and wireless access points support wireless discovery using a reduced traffic load process. The reduced traffic load process includes providing aggregated short probe responses.
Claims27
A wireless access point, comprising:
- a transceiver arranged to receive and transmit wireless signals over a wireless medium;
- and
- a processor, the processor to configure the transceiver to generate a short probe response based on receipt of a probe request received from a wireless station, the short probe response to provide relevant information to the wireless station to perform link setup to reduce a load on the wireless medium, wherein the processor is to further configure the transceiver to transmit the short probe response to the wireless station.
A wireless station, comprising:
- a transceiver to transmit and receive wireless signals via a wireless medium;
- and
- a processor arranged to set parameters associated with a probability function, and to randomly identify a scanning type selected from active scanning or passive scanning based on the parameters associated with the probability function set by the processor, to cause the transceiver to scan based on the scanning type randomly identified.
A system, comprising:
- a memory arranged to store data thereon;
- and
- a processor, coupled to the memory, the processor arranged to access the memory and to set parameters associated with a probability function, to randomly identify a scanning type selected from active scanning or passive scanning based on the parameters associated with the probability function set by the processor, and to scan based on the scanning type randomly identified.
A method for reducing traffic load over a wireless medium due to wireless access point discovery, comprising:
- setting parameters associated with a probability function;
- randomly identifying a scanning type selected from active scanning or passive scanning based on the set parameters associated with the probability function;
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- scanning based on the scanning type randomly identified.
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