IP services over Bluetooth: leading the way to a new mobility

Author

Albrecht, Markus ; Frank, Matthias ; Martini, Peter ; Schetelig, Markus ; Vilavaara, Asko ; Wenzel, Andre

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci. IV, Bonn Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

11

Abstract

We present protocol concepts for an extension of IP for mobility issues in Bluetooth networks. The protocol is called BLUEPAC IP, where BLUEPAC stands for “BLUEtooth Public ACcess”. “Public access” means access to various kinds of information in public areas, e.g. airplane, train, hotel room, department store, museum. Bluetooth will reside in low-cost chips that provide wireless communication up to OSI Layer 2. By the end of this year many mobile devices, e.g. notebooks, PDAs, cell phones, will contain Bluetooth chips as a cable replacement. But Bluetooth is move powerful: with a suitable network protocol that inherits all aspects of IP, it will be possible to provide IP services over Bluetooth. BLUEPAC IP takes IP as a basis and additionally includes functionalities of mobile IP and cellular IP for local IP address assignment, routing issues and handoff support

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; information services; notebook computers; open systems; telecommunication network routing; telephone sets; transport protocols; BLUEPAC IP; Bluetooth Public Access; Bluetooth networks; IP services; LAN; OSI Layer 2; PDA; airplane; cell phones; cellular IP; department store; handoff support; hotel room; information services; local IP address assignment; low-cost chips; mobile IP; mobility issues; museum; network protocol; notebooks; protocol concepts; routing issues; train; wireless communication; Bluetooth; Cellular networks; Fiber reinforced plastics; Local area networks; Multicast protocols; TCPIP; Web and internet services; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1999. LCN '99. Conference on

Conference_Location

Lowell, MA

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0309-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1999.801990

Filename

801990