The interconnection of piconets in Bluetooth networking has received considerable attention. Whilst a variety of scatternet formation protocols have been proposed, a persistent problem is the comparison of protocol performance, and the quality of Bluetooth network produced. Knowledge of best possible networks is important because this gives a concrete benchmark against which decentralized protocols can be compared. In this paper, we introduce a new meta-heuristic framework for optimal scatternet formation that operates in a centralised manner. Given device locations, this is capable of exploring the search space of all possible scatternets to find high performance networks, taking into account multiple and tenuous objectives.
Citation:
Leigh E. Hodge, Roger M. Whitaker, "What Are the Characteristics of Optimal Bluetooth Scatternets?," mobiquitous, pp.124-125, First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous'04), 2004