PEER TO PEER WIRELESS FUNCTIONALITY BETWEEN DEVICES USING WHITE SPACES

摘要

A method for enabling peer to peer (P2P) transmission between a first geo-location database dependent (GDD) station (STA) and a second geo-location database dependent(GDD) station (STA) on a television white space (TVWS) freguency band includes: utilizing the first GDD STA to communicate with a geo-location database (GDB) to retrieve information of available TVWS channels and corresponding power constraints from the GDB; sending a TVWS action frame by the first GDD STA, wherein the TVWS frame includes this information; selecting a plurality of specific channels from the plurality of available TVWS channels to listen for GDD STAs including the secondGDD STA; and when thesecondGDD STA and the first GDD STA are both listening on a same specific channel, beginning P2P communication between the first GDD STA and the secondGDD STA.