The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation
Mesh networks enable a many-to-many relation between nodes, which means that each node in the network can communicate with every other node using multi-hop communication and path diversity. As it enables the fast roll-out of sensor and actuator networks, it is an important aspect within the Internet...
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| author | Mathias Baert Jen Rossey Adnan Shahid Jeroen Hoebeke |
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| description | Mesh networks enable a many-to-many relation between nodes, which means that each node in the network can communicate with every other node using multi-hop communication and path diversity. As it enables the fast roll-out of sensor and actuator networks, it is an important aspect within the Internet of Things (IoT). Utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as an underlying technology to implement such mesh networks has gained a lot of interest in recent years. The result was a variety of BLE meshing solutions that were not interoperable because of the lack of a common standard. This has changed recently with the advent of the Bluetooth Mesh standard. However, a detailed overview of how this standard operates, performs and how it tackles other issues concerning BLE mesh networking is missing. Therefore, this paper investigates this new technology thoroughly and evaluates its performance by means of three approaches, namely an experimental evaluation, a statistical approach and a graph-based simulation model, which can be used as the basis for future research. Apart from showing that consistent results are achieved by means of all three approaches, we also identify possible drawbacks and open issues that need to be dealt with. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7838eba6b05e4f8fa8ed7aa36f11498d2022-12-22T02:06:50ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202018-07-01188240910.3390/s18082409s18082409The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental EvaluationMathias Baert0Jen Rossey1Adnan Shahid2Jeroen Hoebeke3Department of Information Technology, Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumDepartment of Information Technology, Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumDepartment of Information Technology, Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumDepartment of Information Technology, Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumMesh networks enable a many-to-many relation between nodes, which means that each node in the network can communicate with every other node using multi-hop communication and path diversity. As it enables the fast roll-out of sensor and actuator networks, it is an important aspect within the Internet of Things (IoT). Utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as an underlying technology to implement such mesh networks has gained a lot of interest in recent years. The result was a variety of BLE meshing solutions that were not interoperable because of the lack of a common standard. This has changed recently with the advent of the Bluetooth Mesh standard. However, a detailed overview of how this standard operates, performs and how it tackles other issues concerning BLE mesh networking is missing. Therefore, this paper investigates this new technology thoroughly and evaluates its performance by means of three approaches, namely an experimental evaluation, a statistical approach and a graph-based simulation model, which can be used as the basis for future research. Apart from showing that consistent results are achieved by means of all three approaches, we also identify possible drawbacks and open issues that need to be dealt with.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/8/2409BLEBluetooth Meshround-trip-timeIoTscalabilityperformanceinteroperability |
| spellingShingle | Mathias Baert Jen Rossey Adnan Shahid Jeroen Hoebeke The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation Sensors BLE Bluetooth Mesh round-trip-time IoT scalability performance interoperability |
| title | The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation |
| title_full | The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation |
| title_short | The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation |
| title_sort | bluetooth mesh standard an overview and experimental evaluation |
| topic | BLE Bluetooth Mesh round-trip-time IoT scalability performance interoperability |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/8/2409 |
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