Until now, developers and researchers interested in the design, operation, and performance of Bluetooth networks have lacked guidance about potential answers and the relative advantages and disadvantages of performance solutions.
Performance Modeling and Analysis of Bluetooth Networks: Polling, Scheduling, and Traffic Control summarizes the research on the performance of Bluetooth networks, including both piconets and scatternets, conducted since 2001. The book provides insights into the performance of Bluetooth networks through an analytical approach based upon queuing theory and discrete event simulation. It also proposes and validates solutions for common problems that are not covered by the official Bluetooth specifications.
This volume allows developers and researchers to enrich their knowledge of performance issues and become better equipped to solve problems related to the design, deployment, and operation of Bluetooth networks.
Introduction to Bluetooth
Lower layers of the architecture: RF and baseband
Higher layers of the architecture: LMP and L2CAP
Data transport and link types
Connection state and related modes
Piconet formation: inquiry and paging
Intra-piconet polling schemes
Bluetooth communications and intra-piconet polling
Classification of polling schemes
On segmentation and reassembly policies
Piconet model and performance indicators
Analysis of polling schemes
Performance of exhaustive service
Performance of 1-limited service
E-limited polling
Access and downlink delay
The impact of finite buffers Queue length distribution in imbedded Markov points
Uplink queue length distribution
Experimental results
Admission control
Admission control based on queue stability
Admission control based on access delay
Admission control based on cycle time
Performance of TCP traffic
System model and related work
TCP window size
Queuing analysis of the token bucket filter
The outgoing queue at the baseband level
Performance assessment
Piconets with synchronous traffic
Why the built-in SCO links are bad
pSCO: an improved scheme for synchronous traffic
Performance of the pSCO scheme
Adaptive polling and predefined delay bounds
Adaptive bandwidth allocation
Adaptive polling with cycle control: the ACLS scheme
ACLS performance
Improving the performance of ACLS
Scatternet formation
Introduction
BSF in single-hop networks
BSF in multi-hop networks
Conclusions
Bridge topologies and scheduling
Bridge topologies
Approaches to bridge scheduling
Bridge scheduling in practice
The queuing model and traffic assumptions
Rendezvous-based bridge scheduling
MS bridge topology
Packet delays: the MS bridge case
Performance of the MS bridge
SS bridge topology
Packet delays: the SS bridge case
Performance of the SS bridge
Adaptive bridge scheduling
Minimization of delays
Adaptive management: the case of the MS bridge
Adaptive management: the case of the SS bridge
Walk-in bridge scheduling
Scatternet model
Service, vacation, and cycle times
Calculating the packet delays
Stability considerations
Scalability
Scatternet with finite buffers
Scatternet model with finite buffers
Uplink/downlink queue length distribution in Markov points
Service, vacation, and cycle times
Blocking probability and packet delays
Simulation results
