Throughput evaluation for a Bluetooth piconet with link adaptation

In this paper a link adaptation (LA) strategy to be implemented in a Bluetooth piconet is investigated: the performance level that can be achieved is derived and the comparison with the case of no LA is performed. Suitable definitions of the performance figures are given and starting from the knowledge of the physical level performance obtained via simulation, their analytical evaluation is performed in both the cases of LA and no LA. All aspects related to the propagation characteristics of the environment, the modulation/demodulation and coding/decoding techniques, and the multiple access strategy are taken into account in an integrated way.