Bluetooth PAN profile: dynamic master configuration

Author

Kuijpers, G.A. ; Gameiro, S.T. ; Sousa, N.E. ; Kuipers, B.W.M. ; Prasad, R.

Author_Institution

Ericsson Telebit A/S, Viby, Denmark

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2440

Abstract

When more than 2 nodes communicate in a Bluetooth piconet using the PAN profile, the choice of the node that acts as the master determines the efficiency of the bandwidth utilisation. Several ways to improve this efficiency exist and in this paper we investigate the performance of one of these methods: dynamic master configuration. This method dynamically changes the device that acts as a master according to the network traffic to optimise the performance of the Bluetooth network. The dynamic master configuration algorithm is implemented in the WING-IP simulator and the performance is analysed for various traffic distributions. Depending on the network traffic, dynamic master configuration can provide a modest to significant performance improvement in piconet capacity and average packet delay.

Keywords

Bluetooth; delays; digital simulation; packet radio networks; personal communication networks; picocellular radio; protocols; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; Bluetooth PAN profile; Bluetooth network; Bluetooth piconet; PAN profile protocol stack; WING-IP simulator; average packet delay; bandwidth utilisation; dynamic master configuration algorithm; dynamic role management; network nodes; network traffic; performance analysis; personal area network; piconet capacity; traffic distributions; Algorithm design and analysis; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Bluetooth; Heuristic algorithms; Optimization methods; Performance analysis; Personal area networks; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. Proceedings. VTC 2002-Fall. 2002 IEEE 56th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7467-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2002.1040659

Filename

1040659