Flow-fair Intra-Piconet (FℓIP) Scheduling for Communications in Personal Area Networks

As a building step of designing integrated solution for forming multi-hop personal area networks (PANs) of Bluetooth devices, in this paper we introduce a new intra-piconet scheduling protocol that defines the interaction among masters and slaves with an eye to the flows passing through their picone...

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Main Authors: Basagni, S., Nanni, M.A., Petrioli, C.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bluetooth
Buildings
Delay
Master-slave
Personal area networks
Protocols
Resource management
Round robin
Spread spectrum communication
Traffic control
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Summary:As a building step of designing integrated solution for forming multi-hop personal area networks (PANs) of Bluetooth devices, in this paper we introduce a new intra-piconet scheduling protocol that defines the interaction among masters and slaves with an eye to the flows passing through their piconets. Differently from previous intra- piconet solutions, such as pure round robin, its E-limited variation, and the more recent credit scheme, fairness and traffic adaptivity is now achieved on a per-flow basis. Our flow-fair intra-piconet (F^IP) scheduling identifies the flows passing through each piconet slave. Based on this information the master can efficiently manage intra-piconet resources. FlIP is compared with the three leading solutions for intra-piconet scheduling mentioned. Through ns2-based simulations we show that FlIP is effective in decreasing both packet drop rate as well as end-to-end packet latency.
ISSN:2164-2958
2164-2974
DOI:10.1109/RWS.2008.4463623