Mobile Bluetooth Mesh Networks: Performance Evaluation of a Novel Concept

Zohreh Hosseinkhani; Carles Gomez; Majid Nabi

doi:10.1109/JSEN.2025.3545249

Mobile Bluetooth Mesh Networks: Performance Evaluation of a Novel Concept

Zohreh Hosseinkhani
, Carles Gomez
, Majid Nabi (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

The Bluetooth special interest group (SIG) released Bluetooth mesh (BM) as a potential networking technology for Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The use of BM technology in various applications has become increasingly popular. However, most BM studies in the literature assume networks comprising only static nodes or a low number of mobile devices. In this article, we introduce and explore the novel concept of mobile BM networks (MBMNs), which are composed of BM-enabled mobile devices, such as smartphones carried by people. MBMNs can be created opportunistically in a wide range of environments and for various purposes. We argue that MBMNs can be a proper networking solution for many applications, thanks to the native support of topology dynamics by the flooding-based end-to-end data delivery of the protocol. This article presents and evaluates the performance of MBMNs and explores the impact of various conditions and parameters on these networks. Additionally, we conduct real-world experiments to demonstrate that MBMNs are feasible and offer relatively good performance.

Original language	English
Article number	10909186
Pages (from-to)	14124-14136
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Sensors Journal
Volume	25
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2025.3545249
Publication status	Published - 15 Apr 2025

Funding

This work was partly supported by the SCOTT European project that has received funding from the Electronic Component Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No737422. Carles Gomez was funded in part by the Spanish MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER/UE through project PID2023-146378NB-I00, and by Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del departament d’Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya with the grant number 2021 SGR 00330. This work was supported in part by the SCOTT European Project through the Electronic Component Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking under Grant 737422. The work of Carles Gomez was supported in part by Spanish MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER/UE under Project PID2023-146378NB-I00 and in part by the Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del departament d’Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya under Grant 2021 SGR 00330.

Keywords

Bluetooth mesh (BM)
mobile BM network (MBMN)
mobile network
performance study

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