The Bluetooth wireless technology is designed as a short-range connectivity solution for personal, portable and handheld electronic devices. Since, May 1998 the Bluetooth SIG steers the development of the technology through the development of an open industry specification, including both protocols and application scenarios, and a qualification program designed to assure end-user value for Blue...

Bluetooth polling, also referred to as Bluetooth MAC scheduling or intra-piconet scheduling, is the mechanism that schedules the traffic between the participants in a Bluetooth network. Hence, this mechanism is highly determining with respect to the delay packets experience in a Bluetooth network. In this paper, we present a polling mechanism that provides delay guarantees in an efficient manne...

Bluetooth Low Energy is becoming increasingly popular in mobile applications due to the possibility of using it for proximity data. Proximity can be estimated by measuring the strength of the Bluetooth signal, and actions can then be performed based on a user’s proximity to a certain location or object. One of the most interesting applications of proximity information is automating common tasks...

In recent years, multimedia content has become more accessible to mobile phone devices increasing the demand for multimedia services. Streaming video to or from mobile phones over mobile phone operator networks is one option. In this paper we report on the result of a study which analyzes the suitability of using the Bluetooth network as a last hop network for streaming video to and from mobile...

Bluetooth is an open specification for short-range wireless communication and networking, mainly intended to be a cable replacement between portable and/or fixed electronic devices. The main aim of introducing Bluetooth is to connect two or more devices without any physical connection. This helps to reduce time and human efforts for transferring data. The specification also defines techniques f...

The emergence of Bluetooth as a default radio interface has allowed handheld electronic devices to be instantly interconnected as ad hoc networks. Recent studies show that since the Bluetooth standard operates in the unlicensed 2.45 GHz ISM (Industrial-Scientific-Medical) frequency band, the presence of multiple piconets in the vicinity creates interference on signal reception which, in turn, d...

Bluetooth is a low cost, short-range radio technology that enables electronic devices to communicate wirelessly via ad-hoc networks. Different kinds of applications may run over these networks, some of these applications with particular Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. One such application could for instance be an Audio application which need data frames to be delivered at regular interva...

Bluetooth is an emerging standard for short range, low cost, low power wireless access technology. The Bluetooth technology is just starting to appear on the market and there is an urgent need to enable new applications with real time constraints to run on top of Bluetooth devices. The Bluetooth Specification proposes a Round Robin scheduler as possible solution for scheduling the transmissions...

Bluetooth is presently the object of much hype by the consortium of large corporate organizations. Bluetooth is developed for local small area networking. It is a technology for replacing the mess of wires that interconnect the electronic gadgets that are widely used. More than a cable replacement technology, it is expected to make a huge impact in ad hoc networking domain. A number of question...

Data transmission between Bluetooth devices will be presented from a low-level perspective, in terms of the OSI ISO model the physical and link layers. The issues presented in the paper are derived from the task of setting up a packet transport mechanism between two Bluetooth devices. The physical characteristics of the radio link are presented and Bluetooth packet types are briefly introduced....