Performance of a Bluetooth piconet in the presence of IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Author

Feng, Wang ; Arumugam, Nallanathan ; Krishna, Garg Hari

Author_Institution

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

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

1742

Abstract

Bluetooth is a digital wireless data transmission standard in the 2.4 GHz ISM band aimed at providing a short range wireless link between laptops, cellular phones and other devices. The IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) also operate in this frequency band. Since both systems operate in the same frequency band, there can be interference between them. The performance of the Bluetooth medium access control (MAC) layer is evaluated when the Bluetooth radio is operating in close proximity to other Bluetooth piconets and IEEE 802.11 WLANs. A probabilistic approach is used to derive the packet error rate (PER) of a Bluetooth piconet and the aggregated throughput of N collocated piconets.

Keywords

Bluetooth; cochannel interference; data communication; digital radio; error statistics; packet radio networks; wireless LAN; 2.4 GHz; Bluetooth piconet; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; ISM band; MAC layer; PER; cellular phones; cochannel interference; data transmission; digital wireless; laptops; medium access control layer; packet error rate; short range wireless link; wireless LAN; wireless local area networks; Bluetooth; Cellular phones; Data communication; Error analysis; Frequency; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Personal area networks; Portable computers; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2002. The 13th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7589-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2002.1045478

Filename

1045478