Optimizing IEEE 802.11b packet fragmentation in collocated Bluetooth interference

Author

Howitt, Ivan ; Awad, Fahed

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA

Volume

53

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

936

Lastpage

938

Abstract

An analytical model is derived for evaluating the effectiveness of IEEE 802.11b packet fragmentation for mitigating Bluetooth interference in an arbitrary radio propagation environment. An expression for the optimal packet fragmentation is obtained based on the analytical model. Then, based on the optimal packet fragmentation, the performance is quantified and a method for estimating the optimal fragmentation solution is presented.

Keywords

Bluetooth; graph theory; interference suppression; optimisation; packet radio networks; probability; radiofrequency interference; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11b packet fragmentation; collision probability; collocated Bluetooth interference; interference mitigation; optimization; radio propagation; wireless LAN; wireless PAN; Analytical models; Bluetooth; Communications Society; Flow graphs; Interference; Markov processes; Radio frequency; Radio propagation; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Bluetooth; IEEE 802.11b; coexistence; wireless LAN; wireless PAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2005.849973

Filename

1440659