The protocol is designed to speed up the hand over of IP devices between wireless access routers.
The protocol defines a mechanism that can be used by an access router to automatically discover its neighbor with help of mobile devices.
The neighbor list can be used for inter-AR handover decision making.
A similar idea is currently used by 3GPP SON protocol (aka ANR) for discovering candidate access points.
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