Patent ID: 8638754

Claim:
A hand-over method performed in a personal basic service set (PBSS) including a plurality of stations and one original coordinator, the method comprising: receiving an association request frame comprising PBSS control point (PCP) capability information from each of the plurality of stations, the association request frame requesting to associate to the PBSS; transmitting an association response frame to each of the stations indicating whether the association request received from each of the stations is approved; determining a priority to be a new coordinator of the plurality of stations based on the PCP capability information and broadcasting the determined priority to the plurality of stations, wherein the priority is determined in order to appoint the new coordinator for the plurality of stations included in the PBSS; and performing hand-over between the original coordinator and one of the plurality of stations according to the determined priority, wherein the PCP capability information comprises information regarding whether the station supports a network clustering function.