Collaborative internet and voice data transfer using bluetooth mesh networking

We present a new networking protocol, AirRAID, intended for wireless devices that, using the collective power of multiple devices within short-range communication sight, extends the availability of a secondary medium over an ad-hoc mesh network, resilient to the erratic movements of the mobile nodes from which it is comprised. We suggest improvements to the Bluetooth discovery algorithm, making use of a quantized hop velocity space to lower the probability of two devices missing each other completely during discovery, and introduce the concept of redundant backup paths to the wireless mesh, allowing for improved reliability in dynamic mesh network situations.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Kruskall, Peter S. (Peter Stephen)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Larry Rudolph and Christopher J. Terman.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63013

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/63013