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Bluetooth was firstly announced in 1998. Originally designed as cable replacement connecting devices in a point-to-point fashion its high penetration arouses interest in its ad-hoc networking potential. This ad-hoc networking potential of Bluetooth is advertised for years - but until recently no actual products were available and less than a handful of real Bluetooth multi-hop network deployments were reported. The turnaround was triggered by the release of the Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh Profile which is unquestionable a great achievement but not well suited for all use cases of multi-hop networks. This paper surveys the tremendous work done on Bluetooth multi-hop networks during the last 20 years. All aspects are discussed with demands for a real world Bluetooth multi-hop operation in mind. Relationships and side effects of different topics for a real world implementation are explained. This unique focus distinguishes this survey from existing ones. Furthermore, to the best of the authors’ knowledge this is the first survey consolidating the work on Bluetooth multi-hop networks for classic Bluetooth technology as well as for Bluetooth Low Energy. Another individual characteristic of this survey is a synopsis of real world Bluetooth multi-hop network deployment efforts. In fact, there are only four reports of a successful establishment of a Bluetooth multi-hop network with more than 30 nodes and only one of them was integrated in a real world application - namely a photovoltaic power plant.
Data Link Layer Processor for 100 Gbps Terahertz Wireless Communications in 28 nm CMOS Technology
(2019)
An Unnoticed Property in QC-LDPC Codes to Find the Message from the Codeword in Non-Systematic Codes
(2019)
A Modified Shuffling Method to Split the Critical Path Delay in Layered Decoding of QC-LDPC Codes
(2019)
In this paper, we obtain and study typical beam entropy values for millimetre-wave (mm-wave) channel models using the NYUSIM simulator for frequencies up to 100 GHz for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular communication systems. The beam entropy is used to quantify sparse MIMO channel randomness in beamspace. Lower relative beam entropy channels are suitable for memory- assisted statistically-ranked (MarS) and hybrid radio frequency (RF) beam training algorithms. High beam entropies can potentially be advantageous for low overhead secured radio communications by generating cryptographic keys based on the channel randomness in beamspace, especially for sparse multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) channels. Urban microcell (UMi) and urban macrocell (UMa) cellular scenarios have been investigated in this work for 28, 60, 73, and 100 GHz carrier frequencies and the rural macrocell (RMa) scenario for 3.5 GHz.