Abstract: Nowadays, it has become common to equip a device with Bluetooth. As such devices become pervasive in the world; much work has been done on forming them into a network, ho...
This paper addresses the problem of scatternet formation and maintenance for multi-hop Bluetooth based personal area and ad hoc networks with minimal communication overhead. Each ...
This paper focuses on Bluetooth, a promising new wireless technology, developed mainly as a cable replacement. We argue that, in practice, Bluetooth devices will have different po...
Bluetooth standard allows the creation of piconets, with one node serving as its master and up to seven nodes serving as slaves. A Bluetooth ad hoc network can also be formed by in...
Scatternet formation must be addressed before any ad hoc network protocol can be run over Bluetooth. This is due to the frequency hop nature and piconet unit of Bluetooth. In this...