• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.345-348
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• 2004

Every bridge node participating in multiple piconets and forming a scatternet should schedule the inter-piconet traffics in an efficient manner. Frequent piconet switching due to short polling intervals for the links of a bridge node leads to considerable time slots loss caused by the guard time and power consumption for transceiving and processing. On the other hand, restrained piconet switching may result in failures of fulfilling QoS (Quality of Service) requirements for some links. Tn this paper, we present a QoS aware inter-piconet scheduling scheme minimizing the piconet switching events within guaranteed QoS requirements. According to simulation results, the proposed scheme is confirmed to have great improvement in throughput and number of switching events over the credit scheme as current inter-piconet scheduling scheme for the scatter mode.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.2
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• pp.185-190
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• 2003

Bluetooth communication is based on piconet, which is composed by one master and maximum seven slaves. Several piconets can be interconnected via an inter-piconet Bluetooth unit called a bridge unit to form a Bluetooth scatternet. This bridge node can make its presence in each piconet by switching. This switching must be carefully scheduled so that slot wastage and, hence, packet delays are minimized. In this paper, we introduce an efficient inter-piconet scheduling scheme based on sniff mode. This scheme tries to minimize the wastage of slots by having the bridge unit sniff with its peering masters with time limits and communicate with its slaves in remaining slots. The sniff time limits are determined adaptively based on the amount of traffic in each piconet. Simulation results show this scheme outperforms round-robin scheme based on sniff intervals of equal lengths.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.7A
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• pp.467-476
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an efficient MAC scheduling algorithm for supporting Bluetooth scatternet operations. Our proposed algorithm improves overall performances of scatter mode［2, 3] and considers QoS requirements of each link of the bridge node of a scatternet. Scatter mode is based on time division scheduling and provides every links of a scatternet with fair service opportunities. However, since each Bluetooth devices has various traffic characteristics. fair allocation of service opportunities is not efficient and may cause extravagance of wireless resources. Therefore, we propose a new efficient inter-piconet scheduling algorithm compliant with the current Bluetooth specification［1］, and demonstrate its improved performances via computer simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.187-189
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 효율적인 인터 피코넷 스케줄링 방식과 현재까지 연구된 인트라 피코넷 스케줄링을 인터 퍼코넷 스케줄링으로 적용할 때의 성능을 분석한다. 스캐터넷에서 피코넷 간의 통신이 가능한 블루투스 시뮬레이터를 구현하여 실험하며, 이때 평균 패킷의 전송 지연 시간을 측정하여 각 인터 피코넷 스케줄링의 성능을 분석한다. 비교 분석을 위해 PRR, ERR, LWRR 스케줄링 방범을 블루투스 시뮬레이터에 구현만다. 인트라 피코넷 스케줄링을 PRR, ERR, LWPR 방식으로 동작시킬 때 각각 인터 피코넷 스케줄링으로 PRR, ERR, LWRR을 적용한다. 실험결과는 스니프 모드 사용방식의 PRR을 인터 피코넷 스케줄링으로 적용 할 때 인트라 피코넷 스케줄링에 독립적으로 제일 낮은 평균 패킷 전송지연 시간을 가짐을 보인다.