Bluetooth-based mobile ad hoc networks: opportunities and challenges for a telecommunications operator

Author

Groten, D. ; Schmidt, J.R.

Author_Institution

KPN Res., Leidschendam, Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1134

Abstract

We present results of our initial investigations on Bluetooth-based mobile ad hoc networks (MAN). By building a simple demonstrator of a Bluetooth-based MAN, we find that current implementations of the Bluetooth stack have many shortcomings limiting the practical use of MANs. In particular, protocols for setting up the MAN and establishing routing paths for data packets should be tightly integrated with the lower layers of the stack. Once these issues are solved however, Bluetooth-based MANs may prove a very powerful concept for enabling cheap peer-to-peer communications

Keywords

land mobile radio; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication network routing; Bluetooth stack; Bluetooth-based MAN; Bluetooth-based mobile ad hoc networks; cheap peer-to-peer communications; data packets; experimental demonstrator; protocols; routing paths; telecommunications operator; Ad hoc networks; Bluetooth; Communications technology; Master-slave; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Personal area networks; Routing protocols; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.944557

Filename

944557