Bluetooth Low Energy in Dense IoT Environments

Albert F.Harris Iii, Vansh Khanna, Guliz Tuncay, Roy Want, Robin Kravets

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Abstract

Bluetooth Low Energy was designed as a low-power alternative to classic Bluetooth. However, the use of BLE in dense Internet of Things deployments results in high collision rates and wasted energy. To alleviate some of this contention, we present opportunistic listening, an extension to BLE active mode targeting IoT deployments with large numbers of tags and small numbers of scanning devices. For dense deployments of passive advertising devices, we present the design of Smart LaBLEs (BLE-enabled, electronic, de-centralized hubs), which aggregate multiple advertisements across similar products in a retail environment.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7786107
Pages (from-to)30-36
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Communications Magazine
Volume54
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2016
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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