Networking non-PC devices using BlueSky and Bluetooth

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Networking non-PC devices using BlueSky and Bluetooth

The state of indoor wireless networking

BlueSky system

Design challenges

Radio link: communication range

Wireless data: available options

BlueSky radio link

Point-to-multipoint communication over cordless radio

MAC protocol

Serial line emulation over packet based MAC

Design simplifications

Choosing PPP MTU

Stripping off RFC1662 framing

Option #1: Terminate PPP at AP

#2: PPP termination at remote server

Seamless roaming with PPP

BlueSky: next steps

What is Bluetooth?

Bluetooth radio link

Bluetooth network

Bluetooth link layer

Inter-piconet communication

Research challenges

Characterizing scatternets

Graph enumeration

Scatternet topology space

Modeling Bluetooth constraints: an example

Modeling Bluetooth constraints

Managing combinatorial explosion

Scatternet topology space

Construction of Scatternets

Routing over Scatternets

Overview of Routing Vector Method (RVM)

2000 ft. view

Open problems

Author:

Email: pravin@acm.org

Home Page: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/p/pravin