swift - central writing characteristic to Peripheral - ios

I have connected to two iPhones and found the services and characteristics in it. I am facing problems in sending write requests from central and receiving response from peripheral. I have written the code below to write data in central and received data in Peripheral. But the function didReceiveWriteRequests didn't execute. I don't know Why didn't work.
In central view write, the data code:
func writeValue(data:NSData){
if let discoveredPeripheral = discoveredPeripheral{
if let deviceCharacteristics = deviceCharacteristics{
discoveredPeripheral.writeValue(data, forCharacteristic: deviceCharacteristics, type: CBCharacteristicWriteType.WithResponse)
}
}
}
and in peripheral view, the receive code:
func peripheralManager(peripheral: CBPeripheralManager!, didReceiveWriteRequests requests: [AnyObject]!) {
println("didReceiveWriteRequests")
println("\(requests.count)")
}

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