Abstract: A method for waking up a radio communications module (RCM) of a station with a wake-up receiver includes receiving a wake-up signal with the wake-up receiver, waking up the RCM from a sleeping mode, transmitting a second frame if a first frame is received within a specified time after waking up the RCM and if an integrity of the first frame is verified successfully, and placing the RCM into the sleeping mode and the wake-up receiver into an active mode if the first frame is not received within the specified time after waking up the RCM or if the first frame is received within the specified time after waking up the RCM but the integrity of the first frame is not verified successfully.

Abstract: A method and a device for establishing a connection. The method includes the steps of: obtaining, by a group member device of a wireless device group, information about a to-be-connected device and then sending the information to a group owner device of the wireless device group, and/or transmitting, by the group member device, information about the group owner device to the to-be-connected device, where the information about the to-be-connected device and/or the information about the group owner device is used by the to-be-connected device and the group owner device to discover each other; and enabling, by the group member device, the to-be-connected device and the group owner device to share a first password, wherein the first password is used by the to-be-connected device and the group owner device to establish a connection after the to-be-connected device and the group owner device discover each other.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource switching method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, a first resource switching message sent by a second device, where the first device and the second device belong to a same service group, the first resource switching message includes first resource information, and the first resource information is used to indicate a first resource satisfying a resource switching requirement of the second device; determining, by the first device, a second resource in the first resource, where the second resource is a resource satisfying a resource switching requirement of the first device; and sending, by the first device, a second resource switching message, where the second resource switching message includes second resource information, and the second resource information is used to indicate the second resource.

Abstract: A method implemented by a first device includes: sending a first message to a second device on a first bandwidth; receiving on the first bandwidth, a second message sent by the second device in response to the first message; sending a third message on a second bandwidth, where the first message, the second message, and the third message all carry device-reserved time-frequency resource information; and within the device-reserved time-frequency resource information, sending, a message to the second device on the first bandwidth; or receiving on the first bandwidth, a message sent by the second device, where if the first bandwidth is less than 20 M, the second bandwidth is greater than or equal to 20 M; or if the first bandwidth is greater than or equal to 20 M, the second bandwidth is less than 20 M. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a related device and a system.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for waking up a wireless device to resolve a problem that power consumption and communication overheads are large during wake-up of a wireless device. The method includes obtaining, by a first wireless device, indication information of at least one second wireless device using a main communications circuit of the first wireless device, where the indication information includes at least one of a power saving requirement or wake-up capability information, determining, by the first wireless device, an operation mode of an auxiliary wake-up circuit of the first wireless device based on a quantity of second wireless devices or the indication information, and receiving, by the auxiliary wake-up circuit of the first wireless device based on the operation mode, a wake-up packet from the second wireless device to wake up the main communications circuit of the first wireless device.

Abstract: A terminal, including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor. The program includes instructions to generate encrypted capability information of the terminal, receive pre-association index information that is related to the terminal and that is sent by an access point, where the pre-association index information is used by the access point to identify the terminal when no association has been established between the terminal and the access point, send the encrypted capability information of the terminal and an association request message to the access point, where the association request message comprises the pre-association index information, and receive an association response message that is sent by the access point according to capability information of the terminal and the pre-association index information, so that the terminal establishes an association with the access point.

Abstract: A secure connection method for a network device includes: acquiring a public key operation value of a second device in an out-of-band manner; sending public key information of a first device to the second device; receiving public key information of the second device that is sent by the second device, and decrypting the public key information of the second device by using a private key of the first device, to obtain the public key of the second device; and performing a preset-algorithm operation on the public key of the second device to obtain a copy of the public key operation value of the second device, and after the copy of the public key operation value of the second device matches the public key operation value of the second device, accepting received connection information sent by the second device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and provide a method for sending a sync beacon message by a NAN device, and a device, so as to resolve a problem of a sync beacon message conflict that occurs when the NAN device merges to a new cluster in a master role. The method is: when a first device in a first cluster receives first cluster information of a second cluster, if the first device determines to merge to the second cluster, sending a sync beacon message in the second cluster according to a role and a state of the first device in the first cluster. According to the embodiments of the present invention, after merging to a cluster, a NAN device determines whether to send a sync beacon frame.

Abstract: A method includes: securely obtaining, by a first device, a first public key estimated value of a second device in an out-of-band manner; encrypting an asymmetric encryption public key by using the first public key estimated value; sending the encrypted asymmetric encryption public key to the second device; receiving an encrypted first key-exchange public key sent by the second device; decrypting the encrypted first key-exchange public key by using an asymmetric encryption private key; performing an operation based on the decrypted first key-exchange public key, to obtain a second public key estimated value; and when the first public key estimated value is consistent with the second public key estimated value, determining that the decrypted first key-exchange public key is correct, generating a shared key by using a key-exchange private key and the first key-exchange public key, and establishing a secure connection to the second device by using the shared key.

Abstract: A method includes determining a transmission power level configuration of time slots of a shared channel using communications occurring within a first communications group and at a first transmission power level, and communicating with a second device in a time slot in accordance with the transmission power level configuration, wherein communications occurring during the time slot is at a second transmission power level, wherein the second transmission power level is lower than the first transmission power level.

Abstract: A method for service discovery in a neighbor awareness network (NAN), and a terminal device, where the method includes receiving, by a first device, a first service discovery message sent by a second device, where the first service discovery message carries service identifier information and first path information, and the first path information includes identifier information of the service initiating device, or identifier information of the second device and the service initiating device, determining, by the first device, second path information according to the first path information, where the second path information includes the identifier information of the service initiating device and identifier information of the first device, and sending, by the first device, a second service discovery message, where the second service discovery message carries the service identifier information and the second path information.

Abstract: A network access permission management method includes that a configuration device may generate a network access permission update instruction for a target device. A station device may update network access permission of the target device when receiving the network access permission update instruction and when verification of signature information of the configuration device succeeds. When the target device sends a coupling request message to the station device subsequently, the station device may determine, according to updated network access permission, whether to accept or reject a coupling request of the target device. In this way, a user may modify or revoke, based on a requirement, network access permission of any device in a WI-FI network. If a device is lost, network access permission of the device may be revoked in this manner, and the network access permission of the device may also be restored when the device is found back.

Abstract: A network configuration method, including acquiring a public key operation value of a second device in an out-of-band manner, acquiring a public key copy of the second device that is sent by the second device and that is used to perform key exchange, performing an operation of the preset algorithm on the public key copy of the second device, to obtain a public key operation value copy of the second device, and generating a first exchange key according to a private key that is used by the first device to perform key exchange and the acquired public key copy of the second device after the public key operation value copy of the second device matches the public key operation value of the second device, and hence the method simplifies a network configuration process.

Abstract: The present invention provides a security authentication method, a configuration method, and a related device. A first terminal receives a public key for signature of a configuration device sent by the configuration device. The first terminal receives second signature information and second type information. The first terminal determines, according to at least the second type information and the second signature information, that the first terminal is to generate key information. In this way, the first terminal establishes a security connection between the first terminal and the second terminal. This effectively prevents a terminal from tampering with its role, and therefore effectively prevents a terminal from establishing a connection to an attacker terminal with a changed role, thereby further preventing the attacker terminal from obtaining information of the terminal, to effectively ensure security of the terminal.

Abstract: The present invention provides an Anchor Master AM management method and a node. The method is used in a neighbor awareness network and includes: receiving, by a first node, a first synchronization beacon frame sent by a second node in the neighbor awareness network, wherein the first synchronization beacon frame comprises a first AMR, the first AMR comprises first MAC address information, Anchor Master information in the first node comprises a second AMR, and the second AMR comprises second MAC address information; updating, by the first node, the Anchor Master information according to the first Anchor Master information when the first AMR is lower than the second AMR, the first MAC address information is the same as the second MAC address information, and a Master Rank MR of the first node is higher than the first AMR, so as to resolve a problem that air interface resources are excessively consumed.

Abstract: A method, related device, and system for configuring a wireless local area network device are provided. A configuration device obtains working channel information of a wireless local area network. The working channel information is used to indicate a working channel of the wireless local area network. The configuration device receives a configuration instruction sent by an access point. The configuration instruction is received through the working channel according to the working channel information. The configuration instruction is sent after the access point receives a configuration request of an application terminal, and the configuration instruction is used to instruct the configuration device to send configuration information. The configuration device sends the configuration information through the working channel information, so that the application terminal performs network configuration with the access point according to the configuration information.

Abstract: A key configuration method includes acquiring, by a first device, a public key of a second device through a secure medium; sending, by the first device, information used for obtaining a shared key to the second device; and obtaining, by the second device, a shared key using a private key of the second device and the information that is used for obtaining a shared key. The first device obtains the shared key using the information used for obtaining a shared key or using a private key of the first device. The present disclosure ensures that the public key of the second device reaches the first device, avoids that an attacker masquerades as the second device to establish a secure connection with the first device, so that the attacker cannot listen to a message between the first device and the second device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource switching method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, a first resource switching message sent by a second device, where the first device and the second device belong to a same service group, the first resource switching message includes first resource information, and the first resource information is used to indicate a first resource satisfying a resource switching requirement of the second device; determining, by the first device, a second resource in the first resource, where the second resource is a resource satisfying a resource switching requirement of the first device; and sending, by the first device, a second resource switching message, where the second resource switching message includes second resource information, and the second resource information is used to indicate the second resource.

Abstract: A method for waking up a radio communications module (RCM) of a station with a wake-up receiver includes receiving a wake-up signal with the wake-up receiver, waking up the RCM from a sleeping mode, transmitting a second frame if a first frame is received within a specified time after waking up the RCM and if an integrity of the first frame is verified successfully, and placing the RCM into the sleeping mode and the wake-up receiver into an active mode if the first frame is not received within the specified time after waking up the RCM or if the first frame is received within the specified time after waking up the RCM but the integrity of the first frame is not verified successfully.

Abstract: A method and user equipment for discovering a device user to improve security of user identifier information, so that user equipment discover each other securely. The method includes receiving a first message that is sent by a second user equipment and at least includes implicit user identifier information of the second user equipment, obtaining, according to correspondences stored in a first user equipment, a user identifier corresponding to the implicit user identifier information of the second user equipment; and determining, in the user identifier corresponding to the implicit user identifier information of the second user equipment, a user identifier of the second user equipment, to discover a user of the second user equipment. The present disclosure is applicable to the field of communications.