Performance of physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers of IEEE 802.11b in the presence of Bluetooth piconets

Author

Feng, Wang ; Nallanathan, A. ; Krishna, Garg Nan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1489

Abstract

The two technologies, IEEE 802.11b and Bluetooth, have been growing rapidly for the past few years. Since both systems operate the same 2.4 GHz frequency band, it is anticipated some interference between these two systems. In this paper, the performance of IEEE 802.11b network is evaluated in the presence of Bluetooth piconets using probabilistic approach. The analysis is described at both physical and medium access control layers. All possibilities of time offset between IEEE 802.11b packets and Bluetooth packets are considered. Packet error rate (PER) and the throughput of an IEEE 802.11b network are obtained.

Keywords

Bluetooth; access protocols; error statistics; interference suppression; network topology; packet radio networks; radiofrequency interference; wireless LAN; 2.4 GHz; Bluetooth piconets; IEEE 802.11b; collision analysis; medium access control layer; network throughput; network topology; packet error rate; physical access control layer; probabilistic approach; time offset; Bluetooth; Error analysis; Frequency; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Personal area networks; Physical layer; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Spring. The 57th IEEE Semiannual

Conference_Location

Jeju, South Korea

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7757-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2003.1207877

Filename

1207877