Bluetooth-based Ad-Hoc Networks for Voice Transmission

  • Authors:
  • Frank Kargl;Stefan Ribhegge;Stefan Schlott;Michael Weber

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 9 - Volume 9
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper we inspect the possibilities of usingBluetooth for building Ad-Hoc networks suitable fortransmitting audio and esp. voice data using synchronousSCO links. We analyze the features or problems thatBluetooth offers for transmitting audio data in a multihopnetwork. As the existing MANET routing protocols thatemerged out of the work of the IETF MANET WG (likeAODV, DSR etc.) can not be directly used to work withBluetooth, we present a new routing protocol called BluetoothScatternet Routing (BSR) that is influenced by otherMANET routing protocols but pays special attention to therestrictions of Bluetooth (like number of connections, connectionsetup times etc.). The protocol is also inspired bythe channel switching concept of ATM. Some initial resultsof simulations and real-life tests give an impression of theperformance and efficiency this protocol can reach in an applicationscenario.