Bluetooth: vision, goals, and architecture

  • Authors:
  • Jaap Haartsen;Mahmoud Naghshineh;Jon Inouye;Olaf J. Joeressen;Warren Allen

  • Affiliations:
  • Ericsson, Enschede, The Netherlands;IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ;Nokia Mobile Phones, Bochum, Germany;Toshiba Corporation, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A few years ago it was recognized that the vision of a truly low-cost, low-power radio-based cable replacement was feasible. Such a ubiquitous link would provide the basis for portable devices to communicate together in an ad hoc fashion by creating personal area networks which have similar advantages to their office environment counterpart - the local area network (LAN). Bluetooth is an effort by a consortium of companies to design a royalty free technology specification enabling this vision. This article describes the vision and goals of the Bluetooth program and introduces the radio-based technology.