Formation, Routing, and Maintenance Protocols for the BlueRing Scatternet of Bluetooths

The basic networking unit in Bluetooth is piconet, and a larger-area Bluetooth network can be formed by multiple piconets, called scatternet. However, the structure of scatternets is not defined in the Bluetooth specification and remains as an open issue at the designers’ choice. It is desirable to have simple yet efficient scatternet topologies with well supports of routing protocols, considering that Bluetooths are to be used for personal-area networks with design goals of simplicity and compactness. In the literature, although many routing protocols have been proposed for mobile ad hoc networks, directly applying them poses a problem due to Bluetooth’s special baseband and MAClayer features. In this work, we propose an attractive scatternet topology called BlueRing which connects piconets as a ring interleaved by bridges between piconets, and address its formation, routing, and topology maintenance protocols. The BlueRing architecture enjoys the following nice features. First...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Ting-Yu Lin, Yu-Chee Tseng, Keng-Ming Chang, Chun-Liang Tu
• Keywords: Biometrics, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Units, HICSS 2003, Routing Protocols, System Sciences