Wi-Fi Direct

Wi-Fi Direct™ (synonym for Wi-Fi P2P (Peer-to-Peer)) is a technology that allows you to find nearby Wi-Fi Direct™ devices and form a Wi-Fi Direct™ group to communicate over a peer-to-peer link without wireless access points (base stations) in the infrastructure mode.

This feature is supported in mobile applications only.

In a Wi-Fi Direct™ group, the group owner works as an access point in the Wi-Fi infrastructure mode and the other devices join the group as clients. A group can be created either by negotiation between 2 devices or in an autonomous mode by a single group owner device. In a negotiation-based group creation, 2 devices compete based on the group owner intent value and the higher intent device becomes a group owner, while the other device becomes a group client. In an autonomous group creation, a device becomes a group owner by itself without any group client.

A Wi-Fi Direct™ device can join an existing group by associating itself with the group owner, as long as the allowed number of clients is not exceeded.

The main features of the Wi-FI Direct™ include:

• Activating and deactivating a local Wi-Fi Direct™ device.
• Discovering Wi-Fi Direct™ peer devices and showing Wi-Fi Direct™ peer device information.
• Connecting to a specific Wi-Fi Direct™ device and disconnecting from a specific Wi-Fi Direct™ device.
• Creating a Wi-Fi Direct™ group, and manage group.