Bluetooth Low Energy Throughput in Densely Deployed Radio Environment

2019 23rd International Conference Electronics 2019
Armands Ancāns, Juris Ormanis, Ričards Cacurs, Modris Greitāns, Elise Saoutieff, Adrien Faucorr, Sébastien Boisseau

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a promising 2.4 GHz technology for Body Area Networks (BAN) in health care and lifestyle applications. However, the global increase of wireless devices using the crowded spectrum in the 2.4 GHz frequency band can create coexistence issues. This work studies the performance of BLE in environments with multiple BLE devices. An experimental setup consisting of 10 BLE nodes is used to measure BLE application throughput with different connection parameters and under different interference sources, such as other BLE devices and WiFi. The results quantify the decrease of the application throughput and the influence of BLE connection parameters in the experimental settings, as well as suggest parameter values suitable for densely deployed environments.

Keywords
Throughput, Bluetooth, Protocols, Wireless fidelity, Sensors, Interference, Wireless sensor networks
DOI
10.1109/ELECTRONICS.2019.8765577
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8765577

Ancāns, A., Ormanis, J., Cacurs, R., Greitāns, M., Saoutieff, E., Faucorr, A., Boisseau, S. Bluetooth Low Energy Throughput in Densely Deployed Radio Environment. In: 2019 23rd International Conference Electronics, Lithuania, Palanga, 17-19 June, 2019. Piscataway: IEEE, 2019, pp.1-5. ISBN 978-1-7281-2210-6. e-ISBN 978-1-7281-2209-0. Available from: doi:10.1109/ELECTRONICS.2019.8765577

Publication language
English (en)