TY - GEN
T1 - On Relay Selection Approaches in Bluetooth Mesh Networks
AU - Hansen, Emil Alexander Juul
AU - Nielsen, Martin Hedegaard
AU - Serup, Daniel E.
AU - Williams, Robin Jess
AU - Madsen, Tatiana Kozlova
AU - Abildgren, Rasmus
PY - 2019/2/4
Y1 - 2019/2/4
N2 - Bluetooth Mesh (BM) is a new communication standard, which is designed for the upcoming Internet of Things. It builds on the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol and allows devices to extend the range and create a mesh network. BM introduces a publisher/ observer structure where a publisher node can broadcast a packet, known also as an advertisement, and all observers can receive the packet. Typically, in BM networks flooding is used to propagate the advertisements. Flooding is known to suffer from broadcast storm problem and be nonreli-able. To improve packet delivery ratio we propose an approach where only a few nodes, relays, are involved in packet forwarding. Selection of the relay nodes, which is a focus of the paper, is a nontrivial task: on the one hand, a minimization of number of relays is desired, on the other hand, using a minimum dominated set would not provide redundancy. We consider three different relay selection mechanisms and develop their extensions that are capable to operate in a distributed fashion. Their performance is evaluated via extensive simulations.
AB - Bluetooth Mesh (BM) is a new communication standard, which is designed for the upcoming Internet of Things. It builds on the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol and allows devices to extend the range and create a mesh network. BM introduces a publisher/ observer structure where a publisher node can broadcast a packet, known also as an advertisement, and all observers can receive the packet. Typically, in BM networks flooding is used to propagate the advertisements. Flooding is known to suffer from broadcast storm problem and be nonreli-able. To improve packet delivery ratio we propose an approach where only a few nodes, relays, are involved in packet forwarding. Selection of the relay nodes, which is a focus of the paper, is a nontrivial task: on the one hand, a minimization of number of relays is desired, on the other hand, using a minimum dominated set would not provide redundancy. We consider three different relay selection mechanisms and develop their extensions that are capable to operate in a distributed fashion. Their performance is evaluated via extensive simulations.
KW - Bluetooth
KW - Bluetooth Mesh
KW - Internet of Things (IoT)
KW - Network Flooding
KW - Simulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062790882&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICUMT.2018.8631214
DO - 10.1109/ICUMT.2018.8631214
M3 - Article in proceeding
SN - 978-1-5386-9362-9
T3 - International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT)
BT - 10th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops, ICUMT 2018
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2018 10th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT)
Y2 - 5 November 2018 through 9 November 2018
ER -