Distributed construction and maintenance of bandwidth-efficient bluetooth scatternets

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2005-05
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IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2005
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IEEE
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3223 - 3229
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English
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Bluetooth networks can be constructed as piconets or scatternets depending on the number of nodes in the network. Although piconet construction is a well-defined process specified in Bluetooth standards, scatternet construction policies and algorithms are not well specified. Among many solution proposals for this problem, only a few of them focus on efficient usage of bandwidth in the resulting scatternets. In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm for scatternet construction problem, that dynamically constructs and maintains a scatternet based on estimated traffic flow rates between nodes. The algorithm is adaptive to changes and maintains a constructed scatternet for bandwidth-efficiency when nodes come and go or when traffic flow rates change. Based on simulations, the paper also presents the improvements in bandwidth-efficiency provided by the proposed algorithm. © 2005 IEEE.

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Algorithms, Bandwidth, Computer networks, Computer simulation, Distributed computer systems, Problem solving, Telecommunication traffic, Bluetooth networks, Distributed algorithms, Scatternets, Traffic flow rates, Mobile computing
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