An Experimental Performance Evaluation of Bluetooth Mesh Technology for Monitoring Applications

Eduardo De Leon Romero; Majid Nabi

doi:10.1109/WCNC45663.2020.9120762

An Experimental Performance Evaluation of Bluetooth Mesh Technology for Monitoring Applications

Eduardo De Leon Romero, Majid Nabi

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC45663.2020.9120762
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

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Conference	2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020
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
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

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De Leon Romero, E & Nabi, M 2020, An Experimental Performance Evaluation of Bluetooth Mesh Technology for Monitoring Applications. in 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020 - Proceedings., 9120762, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 25/05/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC45663.2020.9120762

An Experimental Performance Evaluation of Bluetooth Mesh Technology for Monitoring Applications. / De Leon Romero, Eduardo; Nabi, Majid.
2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020. 9120762.

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