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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2012
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.;
Seung-Hoon Park, Seoul, KR;
Tae-Han Bae, Seoul, KR;
Chi-Hong Cho, Suwon-si, KR;
Eun-Tae Won, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for determining a gateway using lower power are provided. The method includes setting probing transmission power for setting the gateway, transmitting a probing request message to another mobile station existing in a cluster with the set probing transmission power, when a probing response message is received from the other mobile station, generating a probing response list for the mobile station having transmitted the probing response message, determining whether a cluster list for mobile stations existing in the cluster corresponds to the probing response list, and determining a gateway mobile station according to a result of the determination as to whether the cluster list for mobile stations existing in the cluster corresponds to the probing response list.