Performance of 802.11b Communication Systems in the Presence of Bluetooth Devices

Author

Wadhwa, Manish ; Song, Min ; Chen, Dechang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA

fYear

2006

fDate

16-19 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

78

Abstract

The performance of IEEE 802.11b devices is significantly impacted by the interference from Bluetooth devices that operate in close vicinity. The paper studies and evaluates the performance of 802.11b and adaptive frequency hopping enabled Bluetooth in a more realistic channel model. The probability of error at MAC and PHY layers of 802.11b is found. We consider various cases such that when one, two, or three 802.11b channels are occupied. The numerical results indicate that the throughput performance of the 802.11b system degrades as the number of bad channels and Bluetooth piconets increase.

Keywords

Bluetooth; access protocols; error statistics; frequency hop communication; radiofrequency interference; wireless LAN; wireless channels; Bluetooth device interference; IEEE 802.11b communication system; MAC layer; PHY layer; adaptive frequency hopping; error probability; realistic channel model; Bluetooth; Fading; Frequency; Indoor environments; Interference; Mathematical model; Physical layer; Rayleigh channels; Shadow mapping; Throughput; Bluetooth; Co-existence; Performance; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Research and Education, 2006. ITRE '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel-Aviv

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0858-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0859-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITRE.2006.381537

Filename

4266298