WSEAS Transactions on Communications
Print ISSN: 1109-2742, E-ISSN: 2224-2864
Volume 11, 2012
The Effect of Interference on Bluetooth Data Exchange over WLAN
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Abstract: The paper focuses on studying Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technologies to make Bluetooth data exchange over WLAN applicable. In particular, it addresses the problem of using WLAN coverage area to exchange data between two Bluetooth devices connected to different piconets. To achieve this goal, we propose a new approach of Bluetooth-WLAN integration taking in account the effect of Interference. Problem arising from this integration can be solved using two approaches. Hardware solution when an electronic design for a hardware chip can be offered to support WLAN and the Bluetooth data exchange technologies between two wireless networks. Such chip would be good enough to work as fast as possible but it will suffer from incompatibility with the current technologies such as Mobile phones, PCs, and laptops. The second approach is the software solution when software development for WLAN-WPAN integration can maintain the capabilities of current devices for both technologies. The work proposes different simulation Models developed to simulate the integration process, to study the effect of interference in different locations in Bluetooth-WLAN Integrated Network (BWIN). Simulation results show the ability of data exchange over WLAN considering architecture and interfering aspects.