I\'ve been looking at iOS 7\'s new P2P networking framework, MultipeerConnectivity, and from the description, it seems to me that it uses a combination of some kind of Wi-Fi
I am very interested in this subject as well and I came across these rather old links
AllJoyn
AllJoyn® is a collaborative open-source software framework that makes it easy for developers to write applications that can discover nearby devices, and communicate with each other directly regardless of brands, categories, transports, and OSes without the need of the cloud Source: https://allseenalliance.org/developers/learn OpenPeer SDK
Open Peer is an open P2P signalling protocol Source: http://openpeer.org/open-peer-sdk-for-ios/ I haven't used any of these libraries but I am interested to add them to my simple game for the fun of it.
source Peer to peer android and iOS with Wifi direct (multipeer connectivity?)