Survivable Bluetooth location networks

Author

González-Castano, F.J. ; Garcia-Reinoso, Jaime

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ingenieria Telematica, Vigo Univ., Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

11-15 May 2003

Firstpage

1014

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze survivability issues of auxiliary Bluetooth location networks (BLN) for location-aware or context-driven mobile networks. We assume that there exist service servers that need to know user location in real-time, to send context-oriented information to user handhelds when necessary. The BLN transmits position information to service servers, without user participation. It is not subject to line-of-sight constraints and is supported by existing commercial handhelds. BLN users carry either a Bluetooth-enabled handheld or any mobile data terminal and a Bluetooth badge. The BLN is composed of wireless Bluetooth nodes, which establish a spontaneous network topology at system initialization. The BLN can coexist with other Bluetooth systems.

Keywords

Bluetooth; mobile communication; mobile computing; telecommunication network reliability; Bluetooth badge; Bluetooth location networks; Bluetooth-enabled handheld; badge detection; context-driven mobile networks; handhelds; location protocols; network topology; position information; service servers; survivability issues; user location; wireless Bluetooth nodes; Bluetooth; Context-aware services; Data security; Global Positioning System; Information security; Network servers; Network topology; Personal digital assistants; Printers; Telecommunication standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. ICC '03. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7802-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2003.1204504

Filename

1204504