Concurrent Transmissions for Multi-hop Bluetooth 5
Paper i proceeding, 2019

Bluetooth is an omnipresent communication technology, available on billions of connected devices today.
While it has been traditionally limited to peer-to-peer and star network topology, the recent Bluetooth 5 standard introduces new operating modes to allow for increased reliability and Bluetooth Mesh supports multi-hop networking based on message flooding.
In this paper, we present BlueFlood.
It adapts concurrent transmissions, as introduced by Glossy, to Bluetooth.
The result is fast and efficient network-wide data dissemination in multi-hop Bluetooth networks.
Moreover, we show that BlueFlood floods can be reliably received by off-the-shelf Bluetooth devices such as smart phones, opening new applications of concurrent transmissions and seamless integration with existing technologies.

We present an in-depth experimental feasibility study of concurrent transmissions over Bluetooth PHY in a controlled environment.
Further, we build a small-scale testbed where we evaluate BlueFlood in real-world settings of a residential environment.
We show that BlueFlood achieves 99% end-to-end delivery ratio in multi-hop networks with a duty cycle of 0.13% for 1-second intervals.

Constructive Interference

Synchronous Transmissions

IoT

BLE

WSN

Capture Effect

Författare

Beshr Al Nahas

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

Simon Duquennoy

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Olaf Landsiedel

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks

25622331 (eISSN)

130-141
978-0-9949886-3-8 (ISBN)

International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2019
Beijing, China,

ChaosNet: Distributed Computing for Low-Power Wireless Networks

Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2014-4829), 2015-01-01 -- 2018-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Datorteknik

Telekommunikation

Kommunikationssystem

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

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