Tizen Developers

Hi,

Wi-Fi Direct® is a technology that allows you to find nearby Wi-Fi Direct devices and form a Wi-Fi Direct group to communicate over a peer-to-peer link without wireless access points (base stations) in the infrastructure mode. Wi-Fi Direct is a synonym for Wi-Fi P2P (Peer-to-Peer).

This feature is supported in mobile applications only.

In a Wi-Fi Direct group, the group owner works as an access point in the Wi-Fi infrastructure mode and the other devices join the group as clients. A group can be created either by negotiation between 2 devices or in an autonomous mode by a single group owner device. In a negotiation-based group creation, 2 devices compete based on the group owner intent value and the higher intent device becomes a group owner, while the other device becomes a group client. In an autonomous group creation, a device becomes a group owner by itself without any group client.

A Wi-Fi Direct device can join an existing group by associating itself with the group owner, as long as the allowed number of clients is not exceeded.

For references and further study see links below:

1. https://developer.tizen.org/development/training/native-application/creating-applications-connectivity-and-network/p2p-connections-wi-fi-direct%C2%AE

2. https://developer.tizen.org/development/guides/native-application/connectivity-and-wireless/wi-fi-direct%C2%AE

Thanks.