Reducing power consumption and enhancing performance by direct slave-to-slave and group communication in Bluetooth WPANs

Computer Networks

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-141

  De Morais Cordeiro, Carlos ^a   Abhyankar, Sachin ^a   Agarwal, Dharma P ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Direct slave to slave communication; Multicast; Performance evaluation; Piconet; Power consumption; Quality of service (QoS); Scatternet

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COSTS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; POWER CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BLUETOOTH; DIRECT SLAVE-TO-SLAVE COMMUNICATION; MULTICAST; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PICONET; POWER CONSUMPTION; SCATTERNET;

INTERNET;

EID: 2342570396     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2003.12.018     Document Type: Article

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