Analysis of Bluetooth Transmission Delay in Personal Area Networks

Abstract

Bluetooth is by far the most employed technology to develop practical applications of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). This paper studies the performance of Bluetooth transmissions that make use of the Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network) profile. In particular, the study offers an analytical model that defines the optimal bound for the end-to-end data delay. The proposed ‘delay budget’ takes into account the overhead and segmentation provoked by the protocols involved in the transmission of user data. The model is empirically validated by comparing its results with those obtained through the measurements of actual Bluetooh connections.