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Bluetooth Broadcasting
S. Atchaya
Atchaya, S. Deepika, S. Selvanayaki
Department off Computer Scienc
Science and Technology, Iiird B.Sc. (Information Technology),
Technology)
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
ABSTRACT
Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology to On the other hand, scalability and spontaneous
build small networks of devices. It was design
designed as a networking were not strongly emphasized in the
cable replacement technology. Given its widespread original design.
adoption, especially in mobile devices, new uses are
possible today. For instance, one can broadcast Thus, the idea of Bluetooth is to create personal small
messages to nomadic users based on their location. In area networks for users who ‘own’ all the devices,
this paper, we perform an experimental evaevaluation of rather than creating
eating spontaneous large networks of
whether Bluetooth is indeed a suitable technology for devices that are located in the same location. Today,
spontaneous networking and broadcasting. The the wide diffusion of devices equipped with Bluetooth
evaluation does not only consist of a review of current interfaces opens new scenarios where almost every
hardware and software, but also of a concrete other person in a densely populated area carries a cell
implementation tested in a controlled indoor and in a phone
not-controlled
controlled outdoor environment. The results of the
experimentation show that, despite the intrinsic What File Types can be broadcasted?
limitation of the original design, Bluetooth is indeed Through usage of the Baloo blue cast server, we
suitable for mobile location-based
based broadcasting. wanted to explore the different file formats that
can be used for blue casting and their usefulness
Keywords: Bluetooth, Broadcasting, Devices, in a blue cast service.
Networking,
rking, Hardware and Software, Location In our tests, we investigated how four different
types of mobile devices handled broadcast of
I. INTRODUCTION various file types.
Technologies are often used for a different purpose The four different types of devices we looked at
than for what they were originally designed. were mobile phones running Symbian OS (e.g.
Nokia and Sony Ericsson), Palm OS PDAs,
A classical example are SMS, which were originally Windows Mobile PDAs and Windows XP lap- lap top
designed as a service for the network operators, bu
but computers. The file types that are usually
ended up being the most used form of data exchange supported in commercial bluecasting
blue systems are
among mobile phone users. text files, images, animations, audio, video, Java
applications, vCard (business
ness card files) and vCal
Another recent example is Yahoo! Pipes designed to (calendar event files).
be a tool to create mash ups by Webmasters, today is The tests we performed showed that the
used for more than 95% by ordinary Web surfers. limitations of file formats are restricted only by
the capabilities of the receiving devices. The tests
Bluetooth might have a similar destiny. Bluetooth is a also showed that the different types of mobile
short-range
range wireless protocol thought for the devices handled receiving files in different ways.
internetworking of personal devices such as A Symbian OS mobile phone can receive any file
headphones, PDAs, printers and so on. The type into the inbox, but few files types apart from
requirements of the technology include low battery text, calendar information, pictures, audio and
consumption, robustness, and security. video can be shown on the device.