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Analysis of UDP Performance Over Bluetooth

The Bluetooth protocol is one of the better-known technologies in the field of pervasive computing and is now beginning to emerge in the consumer electronics marketplace in devices such as digital cameras, mobile phones and laptops. This paper examines the performance of the Bluetooth protocol using a simulator developed as...

Tags: UDP, Analysis, Bluetooth Protocol, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2003-11-27

Additional Resources

Bluetooth Protocol Architecture Version 1.0

The Bluetooth protocols are intended for rapidly developing applications using the Bluetooth technology. The lower layers of the Bluetooth protocol stack are designed to provide a flexible base for further protocol development. Other protocols, such as RFCOMM, are adopted from existing protocols and these protocols are only modified slightly for...

Tags: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 1999-08-25

Bluetooth Profiles

The profile found in Bluetooth will describe how the technology is used. Profiles can be best described as vertical slices through the protocol stack. It will define options in each protocol that are mandatory for the profile. The profile will also define the parameter ranges for each protocol. The concept...

Tags: Profile, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers

Protocol Analyzer - Bluetooth Traffic Layer

The client is a leading provider of Advanced Verification Systems and Connectivity Solutions for existing and emerging digital communications standards. The clients had a very successful Bluetooth protocol analyser, which was a low-cost tool for verifying Bluetooth product functionality in a production environment. However, in order to provide a hostistic...

Tags: MindTree Consulting, Client, Analysis, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

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An Implementation of Bluetooth Audio Video Distribution Transport Protocol

Bluetooth is a wireless communication protocol suite. It is targeted at small hand-held devices, cooperating in close proximity. Examples of use of Bluetooth are transfer of files between personal computer PC and MP3 player, synchronization of personal digital assistant PDA with PC, exchange of virtual visit cards, and reading of...

Tags: Audio, Video, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Web Site Development, Wireless, Internet

White papers 2004-11-23

Testing and Qualifying a Bluetooth Design

Bluetooth qualification allows OEMs to have a product listing on the Bluetooth Website and gives them the ability to use the Bluetooth brand on the product. Qualification helps different manufacturers ensure that their products will operate with other Bluetooth products and comply with the Bluetooth specification. The qualification process is...

Tags: Qualification, Bluetooth Qualification, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2005-07-27

A Dynamic and Distributed Scatternet Formation Protocol for Real-Life Bluetooth Scatternets

Bluetooth is a universal radio interface for short-range wireless networks. The basic Bluetooth network topology is a single-hop star-shaped piconet. Several such piconets can be interconnected into a scatternet to form a wireless ad hoc network. This paper proposes a dynamic and distributed protocol to the Bluetooth scatternet formation problem....

Tags: Network, Bluetooth Network Topology, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2004-12-08

Bluetooth Whitepaper

This white paper aims to give a good overview of the Bluetooth concept, covering the technical aspects, regarding hardware, software and Bluetooth applications. It also deals with marketing aspects in relation to competing techniques. The document begins with an introduction where the Bluetooth background and the Bluetooth standardisation organisation are...

Tags: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2000-01-26

A Routing Protocol and Energy Efficient Techniques in Bluetooth Scatternets

This paper proposes a protocol for routing in Bluetooth scatternets. The protocol uses the available battery power in the Bluetooth BT devices as a cost metric in choosing the routes. The paper evaluates the throughput performance as a function of packet arrival rate and number of piconets. A throughput of...

Tags: Technique, Protocol, Routing Protocol, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers

FTS for Bluetooth Virtual Sniffing

The FTS for Bluetooth protocol analyzer Virtual sniffing function simplifies Bluetooth development and is easy to use. It also can be used to add value to other Bluetooth development tools such as Bluetooth stack SDKs and Bluetooth chip development kits. This white paper discusses why HCI sniffing and Virtual sniffing...

Tags: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2003-05-26

Relay Attacks on Bluetooth Authentication and Solutions

This paper describes relay attacks on Bluetooth authentication protocol. The aim of these attacks is impersonation. The attacker does not need to guess or obtain a common secret known to both victims in order to set up these attacks, merely to relay the information it receives from one victim to...

Tags: Springer Science+Business Media, Attack, Bluetooth Authentication Protocol, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Security, Wireless

White papers 2004-10-29

10 Benefits of Bluetooth

Bluetooth technology is a world wide, universal wireless standard. With it being as popular as it is, one can count on it being around for years to come. As more and more devices start to use Bluetooth technology, more manufacturers will be eager to make their products compatible. A chain...

Tags: Benefit, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers

Enhancing the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol

Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol SDP enables a client application on a device to discover information about services on other Bluetooth devices. Every service is represented by a profile, identified by a 128-bit Universally Unique Identifier UUID. A match occurs on a peer device if and only if at least one...

Tags: Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers

A Bluetooth Based Protocol for Multimedia Guidebooks on Mobile Computing Devices

This paper presents a Bluetooth based communications protocol used for multimedia guidebooks on mobile computing devices. Multimedia guidebooks are used in museums to allow users to access information about museum exhibits. The multimedia guidebook protocol was successfully implemented on a personal digital assistant and mobile cell phone platforms. The protocol...

Tags: Multimedia, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Bluetooth, Protocol, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Marketing, Hardware

White papers

Security Overview of Bluetooth

This paper gives a short overview of the security architecture of Bluetooth. The paper especially focuses on the key exchange protocol in Bluetooth. This is the most important security critical part of the security architecture. Unfortunately, there are a lot of security flaws in the Bluetooth standard. Some are rather...

Tags: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Security, Wireless

White papers 2004-06-01

Using Bluetooth

The amazing technology of Bluetooth presents a great way of exchanging data between two wireless devices. Unlike telephones, there are no wires or messy leads to worry about. One can enjoy wireless communications with short distances of up to thirty feet. Bluetooth also offers interoperability, meaning that one can use...

Tags: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

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The Future of Bluetooth: Attacks and Counter-Measures

Bluetooth is by far the most popular protocol for wireless ad hoc networking on the market today. It easily manages the dynamically changing topologies of the ad hoc network, provides fairly reliable connections and allows office networks to work easily across both wired and wireless connections. However, Bluetooth has its...

Tags: Oregon State University, Network, Attack, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2004-12-08

Ad-Hoc IP Networks Over Bluetooth

In the emerging mobile Internet, Bluetooth will serve as the link between the personal mobile devices and the wide area 3G access networks, i.e. offering an Internet access to the PAN. However, in order to use IP for ad-hoc Bluetooth PANs, certain additions and enhancements to the protocol functionality are...

Tags: Network, IP, IP Network, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless

White papers

LUNAR Over Bluetooth

LUNAR is a routing protocol for ad hoc networks. The aim with LUNAR has been to investigate Ad Hoc routing approaches. Whilst many proposed Ad Hoc protocol added complexity as a reaction to findings and shortcomings that arose during development, LUNAR was meant to aim at simplicity. This paper describes...

Tags: Routing Protocol, Uppsala University, LUNAR, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers

Bluetooth Printer Setup

I'm running Fedora Core 4 and have a Bluetoothdongle that is recognized perfectly.The Gnome bluetooth utility recognizes aprinter(HP 995C) without any prodding.I've Googled of and on for a few weeks on howto set up a bluetooth printer with no luck at all. I tried adding bluetooth://000B0D6455B9/sppto my /etc/bluetooth/printers.conf (read...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Printers, Bluetooth

Q&A 2006-03-30