BLUETOOTH - SMART NODES FOR MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS

The implementation and operation of wireless distributed, self-organized, large scale, mobile communication and information systems poses many interesting research problems such as blue tooth technology. While a lot of questions devoted to algorithmic and architectural aspects are already being pursued, few have actually deployed such systems to the extents envisioned. We can say Bluetooth Smart Nodes, each of which can store information, compute and communicate using standard wireless networks on a limited resource platform. Such types of wireless enabled small devices can interact in a heterogeneous environment consisting of different types of networking nodes as well as with other wireless enabled appliances. Important requirements and design tradeoffs to be able to support multiple communication interfaces, handle limited resources and power aware operation. The BTnodes are integrated into our MANET application and networking framework. Demo applications give an insight into usage scenarios envisioned for future architectural explorati