Web Traffic over Bluetooth: Modeling, Analysis and Performance Evaluation

The paper presents a new generic simulation-based method for specifications analysis and precise performance evaluation of communication standards, here conducted on the Bluetooth protocol. The IEEE and other standardization organizations along with the textual description of the protocols, provide a formal language representation of the protocol specification, denoted as protocol behavior model. In this paper the obtainable code from the IEEE 802.15 standardization committee has been assimilated and upgraded into a novel, comprehensive and standalone Specification and Description Language (SDL) - based simulator. The created performance-estimation model is used for an accurate evaluation of the Bluetooth capabilities while performing Web browsing over Bluetooth enabled devices. A SDL-based WWW traffic generator was created for this purpose in accordance with the 3 GPP specifications. The Bluetooth protocol performance was assessed in network scenarios with different traffic amounts and characteristics. This new concept is flexible and versatile, and can be easily performed for any other kind of traffic, or any other communication standard.