A technique for facilitating the management of a wireless database related
to station records and radio-frequency (RF) information by reducing
unnecessary sharing of the data among wireless switches, thus enhancing
efficiency in a wireless network. A system constructed according to the
technique includes a collection of wireless switches with each switch
having associated access points (AP), an AP database distributed
throughout the collection of wireless switches, and at least one station
radio frequency (RF) database. The AP database includes data associated
with ownership of the AP's by the switches, and the station RF database
includes wireless station information and RF information. AP radio
adjacency is determined by whether an AP owned by a specific switch can
detect the other AP owned by another switch. The station and RF
information database is shared only within the subset of switches that
have AP radio adjacency.