Abstract
The introduction of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in 2010 provided constrained devices with a wireless point-topoint communication standard. It facilitates the creation of piconets and reducing product development time and cost. It is until 2017 that the Bluetooth special interest group releases the Mesh Profile allowing a multi-hop interconnection through BLE's advertisements. Being a relatively new technology, this paper aims to experimentally evaluate its performance and investigate the limits of the technology in terms of data delivery capacity in monitoring applications. Several experiments are performed by deploying a number of BLE nodes in an office environment, making a multi-hop network. The performance of the network in terms of packet delivery to a base station is measured in each experiment. Moreover, experiments including mobile nodes are carried out under the multi-hop setup to test the behaviour of the protocol when some nodes move around. The experimental results show that the relay nodes impose critical limitations for message delivery in multi-hop networks, limiting the usage of the BLM technology for many monitoring applications.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020 - Proceedings |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728131061 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2020 |
Event | 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 25 May 2020 → 28 May 2020 |
Conference
Conference | 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Korea, Republic of |
City | Seoul |
Period | 25/05/20 → 28/05/20 |
Funding
This work was supported by the SCOTT European project (www.scott-project.eu) that has received funding from the Electronic Component Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 737422. The authors thank ALTEN Nederland B.V. for providing the means to carry out this evaluation.
Funders | Funder number |
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European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme | 737422 |
Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership |
Keywords
- Bluetooth mesh
- BLM
- BLE
- Multi-hop
- Performance
- Monitoring