Experimental Verification of an Analytical Interference Model for Bluetooth Networks

In this paper, measurement results are presented providing experimental support for the validity of a theoretical framework for analysis of heterogeneous systems of interfering packet radio networks. Specifically, an analytical Bluetooth interference model is considered in this paper, where calculated distributions of energy quantities from interfering Bluetooth networks are compared with distributions obtained from measurements. The measurements indicate that the closed form expressions for the distributions of the received interfering energy in the analytical model capture important mechanisms in real Bluetooth networks. It is also evident from the measurements that adjacent channel interference must be taken into account when analyzing interfering Bluetooth networks