What are the characteristics of optimal Bluetooth scatternets?

Author

Hodge, Leigh E. ; Whitaker, Roger M.

Author_Institution

Centre for Intelligent Network Design, Cardiff Univ., UK

fYear

2004

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2004

Firstpage

124

Lastpage

125

Abstract

The interconnection of piconets in Bluetooth networking has received considerable attention. Whilst a variety of scatternet formation protocols have been proposed, a persistent problem is the comparison of protocol performance, and the quality of Bluetooth network produced. Knowledge of best possible networks is important because this gives a concrete benchmark against which decentralized protocols can be compared. We introduce a new meta-heuristic framework for optimal scatternet formation that operates in a centralised manner. Given device locations, this is capable of exploring the search space of all possible scatternets to find high performance networks, taking into account multiple and tenuous objectives.

Keywords

Bluetooth; benchmark testing; protocols; quality of service; Bluetooth networking; benchmark; device location; meta-heuristic framework; piconets interconnection; protocol performance; scatternet formation protocol; search space; Bluetooth; Bridges; Intelligent networks; Master-slave; Network topology; Personal area networks; Protocols; Space exploration; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, 2004. MOBIQUITOUS 2004. The First Annual International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2208-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIQ.2004.1331718

Filename

1331718