Analysis of Bluetooth device discovery and some speedup mechanisms

Published 1 November 2004

Jehn Ruey Jiang, Bing Lin, Yu Chee Tseng

Citations14

TL;DR

This work analyzes the frequency-matching delay of Bluetooth for both versions V1.1 and V2.2 and proposes three schemes to speed up the device discovery procedure of Bluetooth.

Abstract

The device discovery time of Bluetooth is prohibitively long. This may significantly impact many mobile applica-tions. In this work, we start by analyzing the frequency-matching delay of Bluetooth for both versions V1.1 and V1.2. We then propose three schemes to speed up the device discovery procedure of Bluetooth. The result is a significant reduction of average frequency-matching time from 23.55 seconds to 11.38 seconds.

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