DisruptaBLE: Opportunistic BLE Networking
Paper in proceeding, 2022

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is the prevalent IoT radio technology and perfectly suited for mobile and battery-driven applications. However, it is not designed for intermittent connectivity and opportunistic networking. Hence, the vast infrastructure that BLE-equipped devices such as smartphones, wearables, and sensors provide, remains untapped, even with its potential for data collection, sharing, or emergency communication in disaster scenarios. This paper introduces DISRUPTABLE to unfold this potential: A universal BLE-based store-and-forward architecture for delay-tolerant and opportunistic networking. Tailored to the resource constraints of IoT nodes and the feature set of BLE, DISRUPTABLE enables opportunistic interactions between BLE-equipped devices, providing a resilient network even when established communication over cellular networks or Wi-Fi fails. In our evaluation, we show that in a highly dynamic pedestrian scenario in downtown Stockholm, broadcasts reliably inform pedestrians in 7.1 seconds, while unicast messages arrive within 20 minutes in 48.1% of cases.

Bluetooth Low Energy

Opportunistic Networking

Delay-Tolerant Internet of Things

Internet of Things

DTN

Author

Patrick Rathje

University of Kiel

Olaf Landsiedel

Network and Systems

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

165-172
978-1-6654-8001-7 (ISBN)

2022 IEEE 47th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
Edmonton, Canada,

Subject Categories

Computer Engineering

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

DOI

10.1109/LCN53696.2022.9843509

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10/27/2023