Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using shortwavelength radio waves in the ISM band from 2.4 to 2.485 GHz) from fixed and mobile devices, building personal area networks (PANs). Invented by telecom vendor Ericsson in 1994, it was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables. It can connect several devices, overcoming pr...

Bluetooth is a wireless ad-hoc network concept that was presented in February 1998 by its five original promoters Ericsson, Nokia, IBM, Toshiba and Intel. With Bluetooth, mobile terminals within range of each other can set up adhoc connections for both synchronous traffic, e.g. voice, and asynchronous traffic, e.g. IP-based data traffic. In this paper we analyse how well Bluetooth can carry TCP...

Six years after the adoption of the standard 4.0, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), a non-profit association that deals with the study and the development of technology standards including those of Bluetooth, has officially released the main features of Bluetooth 5.0. It is one of the significant developments in short-range wireless communication technology. As stated by the SIG, the ...

This paper is concerned with an intelligent application of Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) video transmission over a Bluetooth Asynchronous ConnectionLess (ACL) link. MPEG Variable Bit Rate (VBR) video is data hungry and presents excessive time delay and data loss over a wireless communication. In a Bluetooth channel transmission rate could also be irregular, due to interferences caused by B...

Bluetooth is still a relatively new technology to the wireless world. It is designed for wireless communication between a wide variety of different Bluetooth enabled devices; from computers and PDAs to GPS systems and heart monitoring devices. There are a growing number of companies continually adopting this technology. As Bluetooth becomes a standard feature in many products that we use everyd...

This paper reports the results of an in-depth study of Bluetooth naming practices which took place in the UK in August 2006. There is a significant culture of giving Bluetooth names to mobile phones in the UK, and this paper’s main contribution is to provide an account of those Bluetooth naming practices, putting them in their social, physical and intentional context. The paper also uncovers ho...

Bluetooth is a promising wireless technology which allowed electronic devices to be instantly interconnected into short-range ad hoc networks. This paper presents a “proof of concept” experiment relative to the use of the Bluetooth wireless technology to provide network support for context-aware applications. We develop a context-aware guide for a museum using Bluetooth as a defacto radio inter...

Bluetooth is a radio technology for Wireless Personal Area Networks operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. Since both Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 devices use the same frequency band and may likely come together in a laptop or may be close together at a desktop, interference may lead to significant performance degradation. The main goal of this paper is to propose solutions to the interference problem...

Bluetooth based networking is an emerging and promising technology that takes small area networking to an enhanced and better level of communication. Bluetooth specification supports piconet formation. However, scatternet formation remains open. The primary challenge faced for scatternet formation is the interconnection of piconets. This paper presents a review of the proposed approaches and th...

In this article, the authors shall propose a new method for the implementation of secure Bluetooth piconets. Two requirements for the systems must be considered, i.e., privacy and authentication. Privacy ensures that an eavesdropper cannot intercept conversations between two slaves in piconets. Authentication ensures that service is not obtained fraudulently in order to avoid charge for usage. ...