PRESENTATION ON

“WI-FI (802.11b) AND BLUETOOTH:ENABLING

COEXISTENCE-JIM LANSFORD, ADRIAN STEPHENS AND
RON NEVO, MOBILIAN CORPORATION”

PRESENTATION BY
JAGADISH KUMAR GUTTIKONDA
 INTRODUCTION
 EMERGING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES IN ISM BAND
 WPAN-WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKING
 WLAN-WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKING
 WPAN-LED BY BLUETOOTH
 WLAN-LED BY WI-FI(IEEE-802.11b)
 PREVIOUS WORK

 ANALYSIS OF INTERFERENCE BETWEEN 802.11b AND

BLUETOOTH
 PHY AND MAC LAYERS
WI-FI AND BLUETOOTH INTERFERENCE
BASICS
 WI-FI AND BLUETOOTH OVERVIEW
 WI-FI AND BLUETOOTH SHARING OF SAME FREQUENCY
BAND
 SIGNALS AND NOISE
 WI-FI AND BLUETOOTH OVERVIEW

 BLUETOOTH  WI-FI
 RF TECHNOLOGY  Networking
 PICONETS  Data Types
 Synchronous Connection
 Access Scheme
Oriented links
 Asynchronous Connectionless  PHY layer
data types  Power Level
 PHY layer
 Power Level and Data rate
 WI-FI AND BLUETOOTH: SHARING THE
SAME FREQUENCY BAND
 ISM BAND
 TRANSMISSION METHODS
 BLUETOOTH AND WI-FI TRANSMISSION METHODS
 SIGNALS AND NOISE

 SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (Eb/Nt)

 DEPENDENCE OF
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ON
SNR
 NOISE
 IN-BAND NOISE AND OUTBAND
NOISE
 WHITE AND COLORED
TYPICAL TRANSMIT MASK
BLUETOOTH AND WI-FI INTERFERENCE
CASES
 IF BLUETOOTH AND WI-FI OPERATE AT THE SAME TIME WITH
IN THE SAME FREQUENCY BAND THEY WILL INTERFERE WITH
EACH OTHER
 INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENTS

 SIMPLE MEASUREMENTS THAT DEMONSTRATE THE

POTENTIAL MAGNITUDE OF THE INTERFERENCE ISSUE IN A
USAGE SCENARIO CONSISTENT WITH Sim-OP.
 MEASUREMENT ENVIRONMENT

 CONFIGURATION
 GANYMEDE CHARIOT
 MEASUREMENT RESULTS

 WI-FI THROUGH PUT WITH BLUETOOTH ACTIVITY

 INTERFERENCE SIMULATION

 SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT CREATED USING KNOWLEDGE

OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BLUETOOTH AND WI-FI
 SIMULATION OVERVIEW

 SIMILAR TO NIST MODEL DESCRIBED BY GOLMIE

 TYPICAL SCENARIO
 SCENARIO SETUP AND CALIBRATION

 CALIBRATING THE SIMULATION DATA TO THE MEASURED

DATA
 EMPIRICAL MODEL
 SIMULATION SCENARIOS

 IMPACT OF VARIOUS KEY PARAMETERS

 BLUETOOTH AND WI-FI ACTIVITY
 SIMULATION RESULTS

 THE IMPACT OF SCO LINKS

 ADDITIONAL PICONETS
(OFFICE SCENARIO)
 THE EFFECT OF WI-FI ON
BLUETOOTH
SIMULATION RESULTS
 INTERFERENCE REDUCTION
TECHNIQUES
 COEXISTENCE PROBLEM
 TECHNIQUES
 REGULATORY AND STANDARDS
 USAGE AND PRACTICES
 TECHNICAL APPROACHES
 ALTERNATE FREQUENCY BANDS
 CONCLUSION(S)

 COEXISTENCE AND SIMULATANEOUS OPERATION OF WI-FI

AND BLUETOOTH.
 REDUCTION OF INTERFERENCE USING SYSTEM LEVEL
APPROACH
 EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS BY IEEE 802.15.2 AND BLUETOOTH
SIG AND THEIR MARKET DEPLOYABILITY.
 REFERENCES

 WWW.MOBILIAN.COM
 WWW.TI.COM
 WWW.ETSI.ORG

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