A location aware mobility based routing protocol for the bluetooth scatternet

Sheng Wen Chang, Prasan Kumar Sahoo, Chih Yung Chang

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Abstract

Bluetooth is a most promising technology designed for the wireless personal area networks for the cable replacement. In this paper, a location aware mobility based routing scheme for the Bluetooth scatternet is proposed that constructs the links dynamically. Our proposed routing protocol requires location information of the nodes and constructs the route between any source and destination and reduces the number of hops. Besides, the network routing problems are analyzed and role switch operations are proposed to mitigate the problems. Moreover, the roles switch and route optimization operations are also proposed to improve route performance. Rigorous simulation works are done to evaluate the performance of our protocol in terms of mobility speed and number of mobile nodes and to compare our results with similar Bluetooth routing protocols. It is observed that our protocol outperforms in terms of energy consumption and transmission packet overheads as compared to similar Bluetooth routing protocols.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)541-566
Number of pages26
JournalWireless Personal Communications
Volume47
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bluetooth
  • Location aware
  • Mobility
  • Routing protocol
  • Scatternet

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