Next century challenges: scalable coordination in sensor networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Next century challenges: mobile networking for “Smart Dust”
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Clustering algorithms for wireless ad hoc networks
DIALM '00 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communications
Performance of a new Bluetooth scatternet formation protocol
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Proximity awareness and fast connection establishment in Bluetooth
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures
Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures
Rendezvous Layer Protocols for Bluetooth-Enabled Smart Devices
ARCS '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems: Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
BWIG: Bluetooth Web Internet Gateway
ISCC '02 Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'02)
Performance Evaluation of the Bluetooth-Based Public Internet Access Point
ICOIN '01 Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Information Networking
BlueStar: enabling efficient integration between bluetooth WPANs and IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Mobile Networks and Applications
Interference modeling and performance of Bluetooth MAC protocol
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
An overview of the Bluetooth wireless technology
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Communications Magazine
Multicast over wireless mobile ad hoc networks: present and future directions
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Bluetooth is a promising wireless technology aiming at supporting electronic devices to be instantly interconnected into short-range ad hoc networks. The Bluetooth medium access control protocol is based on the Master/Slave concept wherein any communication between slave devices has to go through the Master. While this model provides for simplicity, it incurs longer delay between any two slaves devices due to far from optimal packet forwarding, the use of double the bandwidth, and also wastes additional energy at the Master. Moreover, if more than two devices want to communicate as a group, this can only be achieved by either multiple unicast transmissions or a piconet-wide broadcast, clearly resulting in inefficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel Dynamic Slot Assignment (DSA) scheme whereby the Master device dynamically assigns slots to Slaves so as to allow them to communicate directly with each other without any Master intervention. This proposed communication architecture also provides for Quality of Service (QoS) requests, admission control, and multi-device conversation by which a multicast-like communication is implemented within a piconet. Through extensive simulation, we observe that DSA drastically enhances Bluetooth performance in terms of delay and throughput, while significantly reducing power consumption at the master and also of the overall piconet.