Development and Quantitative Analysis of an Adaptive Scheme for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Co-Existence

Author

Taher, Tanim M. ; Rele, Kunal ; Roberson, Dennis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A smart radio algorithm to supplement the adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) scheme used by Bluetooth devices is developed and studied. The investigation focuses on the media access control (MAC) layer of the Bluetooth. Collision detection, and Bluetooth channel hopping information are used to detect when an IEEE 802.11 wireless access point (AP) is operating and the AP´s radio frequency (RF) channel number (1 through 11). The algorithm then adapts the Bluetooth device to avoid the spectral region occupied by the AP. The performance of this scheme is tested via simulation, and compared with the native AFH system employed by Bluetooth devices.

Keywords

Bluetooth; access protocols; radio access networks; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; IEEE 802.11 wireless access point; MAC layer; Wi-Fi co-existence; adaptive frequency hopping scheme; media access control; smart radio algorithm; Algorithm design and analysis; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Bluetooth; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Spread spectrum communication; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784747

Filename

4784747