Inter-piconet interference mitigation schemes for converged BTLE and cellular network

In a Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) piconet, the master node controls the channel access by a simple polling scheme. Due to an absence of coordination among independent master nodes while accessing the wireless medium, devices will encounter high packet interference if many piconets are simultaneously operating in the same area. In this paper, we propose two schemes in the converged BTLE and cellular network, one is based on bad channel prediction for the BTLE piconets, and the other is based on frequency hopping sequences transformation. We compare the performance of the proposed algorithms with original scheme in the form of channel collision probability and new signaling overhead. The simulation results show that the proposed schemes can reduce channel collision probability significantly and simultaneously the new signaling overhead introduced to the downlink is not large.