An Investigation of Bluetooth Mergence with Ultra Wideband

Author

Van der Linde, Etienne ; Hancke, Gerhard P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pretoria, Tshwane

fYear

2008

Firstpage

451

Lastpage

457

Abstract

This paper presents an investigation into some merging options between an upper-layer Bluetooth (BT) protocol stack with a lower-layer ECMA-368/9 ultra wideband (UWB) radio connection. A Bluetooth over ultra wideband (BToUWB) system is modeled by channeling an existing compliant Bluetooth connection´s data over a software implemented UWB medium access control (MAC) and simulated physical (PHY) layer radio channel. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the methodology used to create a simulated BToUWB system and evaluate some advantages pertaining to the merger between the two wireless personal area network (WPAN) technologies.

Keywords

Bluetooth; access protocols; ultra wideband communication; wireless channels; Bluetooth mergence; lower-layer ECMA-368/9; medium access control; radio channel; simulated physical layer; ultra wideband radio connection; upper-layer Bluetooth protocol stack; wireless personal area network; Africa; Application software; Baseband; Bluetooth; Corporate acquisitions; Human computer interaction; Physical layer; Protocols; Radio frequency; Ultra wideband technology; BToUWB; Bluetooth; ECMA-368; UWB; Ultra Wideband; WPAN; protocol; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, 2008 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gauteng

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3281-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3453-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADCOM.2008.22

Filename

4696147