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<p>Created page with &quot;; Summary: ConnMan supporting Wi-Fi Direct (p2p) ; Proposer: Flavio Ceolin &lt;flavio.ceolin@profusion.mobi&gt; == Description == Wi-Fi Direct (or Peer-to-Peer, P2P) is a technology w...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>; Summary: ConnMan supporting Wi-Fi Direct (p2p)<br /> ; Proposer: Flavio Ceolin &lt;flavio.ceolin@profusion.mobi&gt;<br /> <br /> == Description ==<br /> Wi-Fi Direct (or Peer-to-Peer, P2P) is a technology which enables one device connects<br /> to another without joining a traditional network. It requires a special hardware and<br /> software, present in recent phones, tablets or development boards. Differently from<br /> an ad-hoc connection, Wi-Fi Direct supports wpa2 and allows devices to simultaneously<br /> connect to an existing wireless networks. Besides that, Wi-Fi Direct gives a good way for<br /> discovery devices and services using well known technologies Bonjour and uPnP.<br /> <br /> Wpa_supplicant is the standard daemon providing WEP, WPA and other 802.11 services<br /> on Linux. Recently it started to receive some Wi-Fi Direct support under the feature<br /> name &quot;p2p&quot;.<br /> <br /> ConnMan is a software for managing internet connections with focus in embedded devices<br /> running Linux. It is a fully modular system that can be extended, through plug-ins, to<br /> support all kinds of wired or wireless.<br /> <br /> The Wi-Fi plugin in ConnMan will be implemented using wpa_supplicant. The implementation of<br /> this project was briefly discussed with Marcel Holtmann (ConnMan's maintainer) and<br /> Gustavo Barbieri (barbieri@profusion.mobi).<br /> It intends to work with the existing Wi-Fi plugin and will talk with wpa_supplicant<br /> over DBus. After this project is done, ConnMan will be able to seamlessly scan and<br /> connect to Wi-Fi Direct peers whenever the hardware supports it.<br /> <br /> The WiFi-Direct usage process can be separated in three differents parts: scanning/provision-discovery,<br /> wps and dhcp. Currently ConnMan plus wpa_supplicant has these three parts built in.<br /> <br /> The benefit of adding this feature to ConnMan is create a solution for Wi-Fi device-to-device<br /> connectivity and also keep compatible existing with Wi-Fi features as tethering.<br /> <br /> == Related work ==<br /> * http://connman.net/<br /> * http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/<br /> * http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-and-learn/wi-fi-direct<br /> <br /> == Scope ==<br /> # Discuss and resolve with community the approach to use (change the Wi-Fi technology or create a new technology): 1 week<br /> # Implementation: 4 weeks<br /> # Adapt community feedback, tests and upstream: 3 weeks<br /> <br /> == Contractor Candidates ==<br /> Fl?vio Ceolin &lt;flavio.ceolin@profusion.mobi&gt; (or co-workers from ProFUSION embedded systems)<br /> <br /> == Comments ==<br /> <br /> [[Category:Project proposals 2012]]</div>

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