discovery vs. discovery
Hi everyone,
In section 2, Functional Requirements, a suggestion was made to call the two types of discovery under discussion:
1) Network Discovery
2) Informational Discovery
Here is a potential framework for the two.
1) Is the "traditional" network discovery concept/requirement. .21 would provide a media independent specification that defines optimal ways to determine the existence of L2 networks. Most wireless networks offer the beacon/probe type advertisement now. .21 might specify the essential information that is required across all conformant MACs within this function.
2) Informational Discovery would be a mechanism definition or protocol specification for a network node to locate .21 aware nodes which are producing "neighborhood information" in .21 format. Some MACs offer such information now. We have discussed a variety of additional information beyond that defined in any MAC, as potentially being useful in optimized handover. .21 might specify a way of advertising additional information in an extensible way that permits the "handover state machine" to access it.
It might be that the two services compliment each other, so for MACs which don't have a beacon (e.g. .3) or can't/don't want to modify the beacon, they could publish the 1) through a 2) service.
Please comment!
There are some strong comments offline that 3GPP/PP2 can not modify their L2 to add functionality such as the above. Are there comments on this too?
Best Regards,
Michael