Bluetooth is an ad hoc network technology that provides relatively low data rates for supporting short-range, wireless personal area network (PAN) applications. This book offers an in-depth, practical view of the performance of Bluetooth networks, including both piconets and scatternets. Bluetooth radios are starting to gain popularity in laptops, headphones, cellular phones, and personal digital assistants (PDAs). This requires users, as well as developers and researchers, to have a better understanding of Bluetooth performance issues.

Given the technical nature of this book, it is intended to be used by developers and researchers as a guide for implementing Bluetooth solutions. Most Bluetooth-related books focus on the network structure, interrelationships, and applications, and Bluetooth’s relationship with other emerging wireless technologies. This book offers a different view. It provides insights on the design, operation, and performance of Bluetooth networks, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of Bluetooth performance solutions.

The book includes coverage of Bluetooth data communications, its goals, key concepts, and design; performance analysis of simple piconets, including an overview of intra-piconet polling techniques, queuing theoretic analysis, issues of admission control, transmission control protocol (TCP) traffic performance, and performance of two polling schemes for voice and multimedia traffic; and Bluetooth scatternets, including an overview of scatternet formation algorithms, issues related to scatternet operation, the problem of bridge scheduling, and the impact of finite device buffers. There is also an appendix that presents the definitions and notations related to probability generating functions and the Laplace-Stieltjes transform.

The book presents an analysis of Bluetooth performance, improving applicability and extending Bluetooth into entirely new application domains. The authors present a detailed analysis of their work (with complete reasoning). With this book, developers and researchers will have a complete blueprint for leveraging the growing power of Bluetooth.

Overall, the book is a valuable source of information about Bluetooth technology, with special focus on performance modeling and analysis. It contains a lot of practical information that comes from the experiences of the authors.

Unfortunately, there is a lot to cover in 300 pages, so the coverage is necessarily shallow. If you’re looking for detailed coverage of a specific topic, you will be disappointed. This book is very technical, with lots of mathematical formulations, making it hard for nontechnical readers to appreciate it. That being said, the text contains many illustrations and mathematical formulations that provide better understanding of important topics. The book will be very attractive to technical readers.