Time analysis of the handover procedure in a Bluetooth network

Author

Corvaja, Roberto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Padova Univ., Italy

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

2218

Abstract

Handover in a Bluetooth scatternet is studied. The inquiry procedure defined by the Bluetooth standard to create and manage an ad-hoc network could also be used to perform handover, but is too slow to keep communication active. An on-demand procedure, based on accurate paging, is proposed. The parameters needed to perform the handover are exchanged when necessary, thus information is not required to be stored on the devices. The handover performance is studied by giving a statistical description of the time needed to terminate it. We show that handover in a reasonable time is feasible, and is suitable for many of the asynchronous communications applications envisaged for Bluetooth.

Keywords

Bluetooth; ad hoc networks; paging communication; statistical analysis; Bluetooth scatternet; accurate paging; ad-hoc network; asynchronous communications; handover procedure; on-demand procedure; statistical description; time analysis; Ad hoc networks; Asynchronous communication; Bluetooth; Communication standards; Intelligent networks; Manufacturing; Master-slave; Personal area networks; Scattering; Wireless networks;

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.2002.1046538

Filename

1046538