Abstract: A system, method and device may include triggering a direct connection setup based on one or more communication parameters communicated with a mobile device via a fixed device. It may be determined whether the mobile device is a peer. The quality of service with the mobile device via the fixed device may be compared with quality of service of a mobile device via a direct link. A channel for the direct link may be selected and information may be sent to the mobile device over the direct link via the channel.

Abstract: Techniques are described that provide load balancing in wireless networks. For instance, a device (e.g., a first access point) may receive one or more current operational characteristics for each of one or more neighbor APs. Also, the first AP may determine a received signal strength for each of these neighbor AP(s). In turn, the first AP selects one or more reportable neighbor APs from these neighbor APs. Further, the first AP transmits a beacon. This beacon includes, for each reportable neighbor AP, the corresponding one or more current operational characteristics and the corresponding received signal strength.

Abstract: A method and system to facilitate dynamic service negotiation with a uniform and persistent security control plane in a wireless network. In one embodiment of the invention, a node in the wireless network determines each capability provided by each of one or more virtual nodes that it supports and transmits a frame that has information of each capability provided by each of the one or more virtual nodes. By combining all the information of each capability provided by each of the one or more virtual nodes into one frame, the node reduces the volume of management traffic required and increases the available usable channel bandwidth in one embodiment of the invention.

Abstract: A method to generate a pairwise master key for use in establishing a wireless connection is presented. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a region in an image. The method further comprises generating the pairwise master key based at least on contents of the region in the image.