Centrally assisted associations with a local manager by peers in a peer to peer wireless network

Abstract

The technologies described herein are generally directed toward facilitating centrally assisted associations with a local manager by peers in a peer to peer wireless system. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include identifying a group of local managers of a group of user equipments. The operations can further include receiving, from a network device, a criterion for selecting a local manager from the group of local managers of the group of user equipments, wherein the criterion is based on an association parameter selected by the network device.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method, comprising:
 for a local group of user equipment of a collection of local groups of user equipment, selecting, by first network equipment comprising a processor, a selection parameter for selection of a first user equipment of the local group to be a local manager of the local group of user equipment; and   communicating, by the first network equipment, to a second user equipment in the local group, the selection parameter, enabling the second user equipment to, based on the selection parameter, select the first user equipment as the local manager from a group of candidate local managers of the local group, wherein the local manager performs group management functions for the local group.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein selecting the first user equipment comprises generating, by the second user equipment, a criterion for the selection of the first user equipment, wherein the criterion generated by the second user equipment comprises an aggregated cost metric generated based on the selection parameter and a network metric. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the network metric comprises a value corresponding to a workload of the local manager. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 2 , further comprising, updating, by the first network equipment, the selection parameter based on the aggregated cost metric. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein communicating the selection parameter to the second user equipment comprises communicating the selection parameter to a candidate local manager of the group of candidate local managers, enabling the candidate local manager to select the network metric to communicate to the second user equipment, and wherein selecting the local manager based on the criterion comprises selecting the local manager based on a process selected by the second user equipment and the network metric. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein selecting the selection parameter is based on a weighting factor for the approach to selecting the local manager. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the selection parameter defines a process to use to select the local manager that depends upon a network metric. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the local manager is further enabled to communicate the network metric to the second user equipment, enabling the second user equipment to select the local manager based on the process and the network metric. 
     
     
         9 . A system, comprising:
 a processor; and   a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 identifying a group of candidate local managers of a local group of user equipment of a collection of local groups of user equipment, 
 receiving, from a network device, an association parameter, and 
 based on the association parameter and a predicted workload of a local manager of the local group of user equipment, selecting the local manager of the group of candidate local managers. 
   
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the association parameter comprises an aggregated cost metric generated based on the predicted workload of the local manager, and wherein selecting the local manager based on the association parameter comprises selecting the local manager further based on the aggregated cost metric. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a control channel message comprising a notification that an updated association parameter is available from a broadcasted signal. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the control channel message comprises a paging message and the broadcasted signal comprises a system information block. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the broadcasted signal is broadcast by the local manager, and wherein the broadcasted signal is based on the association parameter. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 13 , wherein the broadcasted signal is broadcast by the network device. 
     
     
         15 . A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of local controller equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 identifying a group of candidate user equipment of a local group of user equipment of a collection of local groups of user equipment, wherein the group of candidate user equipment comprises candidates to be a local administrator of the local group;   receiving an association criterion; and   based on the association criterion, selecting a local manager of the local group from the group of candidate user equipment.   
     
     
         16 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 15 , wherein the association criterion comprises an aggregated cost metric generated based on an association parameter and a network metric. 
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise, updating the association parameter based on the aggregated cost metric. 
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 16 , wherein selecting the local manager is further based on an approach to selecting the local manager that was received with the association criterion. 
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 16 , wherein the network metric comprises a value corresponding to a workload of the local manager. 
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 19 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a control channel message comprising a notification that an updated association criterion is available from a broadcasted signal.