Bluetooth is a short range operating technology that helps in the exchange of data. Faster and efficient communications using a Bluetooth device is mandatory, since it has resource limitations. Service discovery delays pose a major problem when considering the Bluetooth devices. Our paper provides a comparative study that discusses efficient mechanisms to reduce these delays by providing a better service discovery process. Further, we also discuss mechanisms that help improve the power consumption.
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BLUETOOTHBluetooth is a short range wireless system operating in 2.4 GHz industry, society and medical (ISM) unlicensed band, where a number of radio systems share the same resource. The Bluetooth rapidly hops over all the 79 channels to mitigate interferences using a pseudo-random frequency hopping (FH) technique [1]. It first generate a pseudo-random hop sequence based on its master clock and address, and then maps it into a desired hopping frequency so that each packet is transmitted through a different channel. However, recent works have shown that the performance of the Bluetooth system using pseudorandom FH technique can be heavily degraded due to unavoidable co-existing interferences (e.g., interferences caused by collocated Bluetooth devices or IEEE 802.11x based wireless local area network (WLAN)) in the unlicensed band [2-6].To alleviate this problem, a number of non-collaborative schemes working regardless of any other systems have been considered [7][8][9][10][11][12]. Most of them consider the use of two fundamental processes; channel classification and adaptive control action. Channel classification estimates channel conditions to detect the presence of any interference source nearby. Adaptive control action mitigates interference sources by exploiting the channel classification information.