IEEE 802.11 & Bluetooth Interference: Simulation and Coexistence

Author

Mathew, Anil ; Chandrababu, Nithin ; Elleithy, Khaled ; Rizvi, Syed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 May 2009

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

223

Abstract

IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, these two operating in the unlicensed 2.4Ghz frequency band are becoming more anymore popular in the mobile computing world. The number of devices equipped with IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth is growing drastically. Result is the number of co-located devices , say within 10meters, grown to a limit, so that it may cause interference issues in the 2.4Ghz radio frequency spectrum. Bluetooth supports both voice(SCO) and data(ACL) packets. In this paper we investigate these interference issues and use a new Bluetooth voice packet named synchronous connection-oriented with repeated transmission (SCORT) to study the improvement in performance. For the sake of simulation results, we provide a comprehensive simulation results using MATLAB Simulink.

Keywords

Bluetooth; UHF devices; mobile computing; radio spectrum management; radiofrequency interference; wireless LAN; Bluetooth interference; IEEE 802.11 network; MATLAB Simulink; SCORT; frequency 2.4 GHz; mobile computing; radio frequency spectrum; synchronous connection-oriented with repeated transmission; voice packet; Bluetooth; Communication networks; Communication standards; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Computer simulation; Interference; Mobile computing; Radio frequency; Wireless networks; ACL; Bluetooth; SCO; SCORT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2009. CNSR '09. Seventh Annual

Conference_Location

Moncton, NB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4155-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3649-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNSR.2009.41

Filename

4939129