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 queueing 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.

Features:

• Offers an introductory treatment of Bluetooth data communications, providing readers with the basic tenets that allow them to easily follow later discussions
• Provides an overview of intra-piconet polling techniques
• Presents the queueing theoretic analysis of exhaustive, 1-limited, and E-limited polling
• Explores issues related to transmission of multimedia traffic using the built-in SCO mode as well as enhanced modes with superior performance
• Examines the impact of finite device buffers, admission control, and transmission of TCP traffic over Bluetooth
• Offers an overview of scatternet formation algorithms
• Discusses issues related to scatternet operation, including rendezvous-based, adaptive, and walk-in approaches to bridge scheduling