Interference Aware Bluetooth Packet Scheduling

Published

November 1, 2001

Author(s)

Nada T. Golmie, Nicolas Chevrollier, I El bakkouri

Abstract

Bluetooth is a radio technology for Wireless Personal Area Networks operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. Since both Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 devices use the same frequency band and may likely come together in a laptop or may be close together at a desktop, interference may lead to significant performance degradation. The main goal of this paper is to propose a scheduling algorithm aimed at reducing the impact of interference. This algorithm takes advantage of the fact that devices in the same piconet will not be subject to the same levels of interference on all channels of the band. The basic idea is to utilize the Bluetooth frequency hopping pattern and distribute channels to devices such that to maximize their throughput while ensuring fairness of access among users. Simulation results are given for selected scenarios and configurations of interest.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of GIobecom 2001

Conference Dates

November 25-29, 2001

Conference Location

San Antonio, TX, USA

Pub Type

Conferences

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Citation

Golmie, N. , Chevrollier, N. and El bakkouri, I. (2001), Interference Aware Bluetooth Packet Scheduling, Proceedings of GIobecom 2001, San Antonio, TX, USA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51012 (Accessed October 14, 2025)