Method, apparatus, and system for joining a neighborhood aware network device cluster

摘要

The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and system for joining a neighborhood aware network device cluster. When a wireless device in the first neighborhood-recognized network device cluster finds a second neighborhood-recognized network device cluster by scanning, if the wireless device needs to participate in the second neighborhood-recognized network device cluster, the wireless device Leave the neighborhood recognition network device cluster and join the second neighborhood recognition network device cluster. Since the wireless device does not belong to a plurality of neighborhood recognition network device clusters at the same time, the power consumption of the wireless device is low. On the other hand, as time progresses, when all wireless devices in the first neighborhood recognition network device cluster come out and join the second neighborhood recognition network device cluster, the first neighborhood recognition network device cluster on the operating channel The discovery time window is no longer occupied and the available resources on the operating channel increase.