Patent ID: 9148844
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for finding partners in a Mobile Internet Access Node MiAN cluster system, wherein the MiAN cluster system comprising a server, one or more master MiANs and one or more slave MiANs, each of the MiANs including a proximity interface for establishing a communication connection with the other MiANs, the method comprising the steps of: performing, by the slave MiAN, search on working channels of the proximity interface in accordance with a preset search order, and trying to establish a communication connection with the proximity interface of a master MiAN with respect to the MiANs that have been searched during the search process; wherein, when selecting the working channels of the proximity interface, all the master MiANs in the clustering system perform search in accordance with the search order, and operate on the channel which has been searched first in accordance with the search order and the channel quality of which meets a predetermined requirement; wherein acquiring at least two channel groups divided in advance for all the working channels of the proximity interface, a search priority of each channel group, and channel information included in each channel group, wherein each channel group including more than one channel, and different channel groups having different search priorities, the number of the channels included in the channel group with a higher search priority is smaller than the number of the channels included in the channel group with a lower search priority; performing search on each channel group of the at least two channel groups in a descending order of the search priorities; trying to establish a communication connection with the proximity interfaces of the MiANs one by one when the MiANs have been searched on a current channel group, and terminating the process when the communication connection with any of the MiANs has been established successfully, otherwise continuing to perform search on a next channel group; and continuing to perform search on the next channel group if no MiAN has been searched on the current channel group.