Bluetooth an enabler for personal area networking.

We find ourselves today often carrying numerous portable electronic devices, such as notebook computers, mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, and mp3/MD/DVD players, used to help and entertain us in our professional as well as private lives. For the most part, these devices are used separately, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 15, 5 (2001).
Main Author:	Johansson, P.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	3G UMTS mobile phone. Bluetooth piconet network architecture. Bluetooth standard. Bluetooth wireless technology. IPS algorithms. Internet access. PAN. PDA. Ad hoc networking. Digital cameras. Gateway nodes. Interpiconet scheduling. Mobile phones. Mp3/MD/DVD players. Network nodes. Notebook computers. Packet forwarding. Personal area networking. Piconet interconnection. Portable electronic devices. Public wireless LAN. Rendezvous point algorithms. Scatternet architecture. Scatternet scheduling. Short-range radio links. Star topology. Time sharing.