A distributed self-healing approach to Bluetooth scatternet formation

This paper proposes a distributed self-healing technique for topology formation in dynamic Bluetooth wireless personal area networks (BT-WPANs) and analyzes three new algorithms for scatternet formation. The three algorithms employ distributed procedures for the insertion of one or more nodes in a BT-WPAN, and are able to effectively compromise between the need for system efficiency and the desire to promptly adapt to topology changes. Depending on which algorithm is employed, the proposed approach generates BT-WPANs with different connectivity properties as well as topology structures.