Chaitanya Dabke

EETS 8392: Wireless Internet

10 sample Questions
Section 1. State True or False
1. 802.15.4 Task Group develops standards for low rate radios (<200 kb/s)
Ans. True
Source: An Overview of the Bluetooth Wireless Technology
By Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Corporation
2. The middleware protocols comprise protocols developed exclusively for the
Bluetooth wireless technology.
Ans. False
Correct answer: Actually the transport protocols comprise protocols developed
exclusively for the Bluetooth wireless technology.
Source: An Overview of the Bluetooth Wireless Technology
By Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Corporation
3. Bluetooth devices not associated with any piconet are in stand-by mode.
Ans. True
Source: An Overview of the Bluetooth Wireless Technology
By Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Corporation
4. Slaves transmit their data in even time slots, whereas masters transmit data in
odd time slots
Ans. False
Correct Ans. Slaves transmit their data in odd time slots, whereas masters transmit data
in even time slots.
Source: An Overview of the Bluetooth Wireless Technology
By Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Corporation

Section 2. Multiple-choice Questions

5. The two parameters that are involved in practically all aspects of Bluetooth
communications.
A. Unique IEEE-type 48-bit address (BD_ADDR) and a free-running 28-bit clock.
B. Unique IEEE-type 28-bit address (AM_ADDR) and a free-running 48-bit clock.
C. Unique IEEE-type 28-bit address (BD_ADDR) and a free-running 48-bit clock.
D. Unique IEEE-type 48-bit address (AM_ADDR) and a free-running 28-bit clock.
E. None of the above
Ans. A.
Unique IEEE-type 48-bit address (BD_ADDR) and a free-running 28-bit clock.
Source: An Overview of the Bluetooth Wireless Technology
By Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Corporation

6. Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPAN) is not characterized by

A Low data rate
B Very low power consumption battery operation from several months to years
C Variable network topologies
D Location awareness
E High cost
Ans. E.
High cost
Source: IEEE 802.15.4: A Developing Standard for Low-Power Low-Cost Wireless
Personal Area Networks
By Jos A. Gutierrez, Marco Naeve Et. al.

7. Bluetooth uses ____________________

________________ technology.

while

IEEE

802.11b

uses

A. DSSS, FHSS.
B. TDMA, FDMA.
C. FHSS, DSSS.
D. FDMA, TDMA.
E. None of the above
Ans. C
FHSS, DSSS.
Source: Wi-Fi (802.11b) and Bluetooth: Enabling Coexistence
Jim Lansford, Adrian Stephens, and Ron Nevo, Mobilian Corporation

Section C. Short Essay Questions

8. Explain the Radio layer of Bluetooth in brief

Ans. The radio layer defines the technical characteristics of the Bluetooth radios. A
Bluetooth radio operates on the license free 2.4 GHz ISM band. It employs a fast (1,600
hops/sec), frequency hopping, spread-spectrum (FHSS) technique. The radio hops in a
pseudo-random fashion on 79 one-MHz channels. The modulation technique is a binary
Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK) and the raw transmission speed is 1 Mb/s. The
Bluetooth radios come in three power classes, depending on there transmit power. Class 1
radios have transmit power of 20 dBm (100 mW); class 2 radios have transmit power of 4
dBm (2.5 mW); class 3 radios have transmit power of only 0 dBm (1 mW).

Source: An Overview of the Bluetooth Wireless Technology

By Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Corporation

9 Compare Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11x (WLAN) on the basis of Bit rates, Range,
RF output power, Battery power consumption and Cost.
Ans.
Bit rates
Range
RF output power
Battery power consumption
Cost.
Number of Hops

WLAN
2-11 Mbps
Upto 100 Meters
About 1 Watts
Much More than WLAN
More
No hops

Bluetooth
1 Mbps
10 100 Meters
About 1 milli watts
Much Less than WLAN
Less
79 hops/second

Source: IEEE 802.15.4: A Developing Standard for Low-Power Low-Cost Wireless

Personal Area Networks
By Jos A. Gutierrez, Marco Naeve Et. al.

10. Explain the different states in which a slave can be in. (Active, hold, park and
sniff).
Ans.
Active: The slave is totally synchronized in this state that is it has the master's address and
master clock sequence.
Hold: Devices synchronized to a piconet can enter power-saving modes in which device
activity is lowered. Data transfer restarts instantly when units transition out of hold mode.
Park: This is the most power efficient mode of all, In this mode the device is still
synchronized to the piconet but it does not participate in the traffic. In this mode
occasionally a slave listens to the traffic of the master to re-sync and check the broadcast
messages
Sniff: This is the least power efficient mode. In this mode a slave device listens to the
piconet at reduced rate, reducing the duty cycle. The sniff interval is programmable and
depends on the application
Source: EETS: 8392 Lecture note, Session No. 4.
By Dr. Bernard K.
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