Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Dominating Set Based Bluetooth Scatternet Formation with Localized Maintenance
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A new Bluetooth scatternet formation protocol
Mobile Networks and Applications
BlueMesh: degree-constrained multi-hop scatternet formation for Bluetooth networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking
Decentralized Optimization of Dynamic Bluetooth Scatternets
MOBIQUITOUS '05 Proceedings of the The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services
Secure Bluetooth services in an m-learning environment
SEPADS'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Software engineering, parallel and distributed systems
Dynamic Congestion Control through backup relay in Bluetooth scatternet
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Dynamic relay management protocol for efficient inter-piconet scheduling in Bluetooth scatternet
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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In a large scale Bluetooth network, the permanent Scatternet is regarded as the only method to interconnect Piconets. But, many Bluetooth devices do not support Scatternet. When they support it, features are limited. Moreover, in high mobility situations, the permanent Scatternet is not useful because of the extremely high overhead caused by frequent disconnections and reconnections. We propose Overlaid Bluetooth Piconets (OBP) and Temporary Scatternets (TS) to interconnect Piconets and form a virtual Scatternet. In OBP, every Piconet continuously changes its stages and collects metadata from Piconets within communication range. If metadata shows the existence of useful data to transfer, an inter-piconet connection is made and data is transferred. TS can be used instead of using permanent Scatternet to interconnect Piconets when needed. TS does not require large Scatternet formations and complex maintenance schemes. Moreover, it does not keep routing information. In this paper, we introduce and illustrate the OBP and TS concepts. We then compare throughput and efficiency of OBP and TS with respect to Scatternet.