Impact of interference on a Bluetooth network in the 2.4 GHz ISM band

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

25-28 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

820

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth wireless networks can provide complimentary services and they are likely to be installed within the same environments. Since both networks operate in the same ISM frequency band, the networks will be impaired if the probability of packet collision between the networks is sufficiently large. In this paper, the performance of the Bluetooth medium access control (MAC) layer is quantified when the Bluetooth radio operates in close proximity to other Bluetooth piconets and IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs). The packet error rate and aggregated throughput are obtained.

Keywords

Bluetooth; IEEE standards; access protocols; packet radio networks; picocellular radio; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; 2.4 GHz; Bluetooth piconet; Bluetooth wireless networks; IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks; ISM frequency band; MAC layer; UHF; WLAN; medium access control layer; packet collision probability; packet error rate; throughput; Bluetooth; Error analysis; Frequency; Intelligent networks; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Personal area networks; Physical layer; Throughput; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, 2002. ICCS 2002. The 8th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7510-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCS.2002.1183244

Filename

1183244