Committee Chair

Eltom, Ahmed H.

Committee Member

Sartipi, Mina; Craven, Stephen

Department

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is an emerging technology that is considered a breakthrough in the field of wireless communications due to its very low power consumption property. One of the issues of the current practical implementations of BLE is throughput. The theoretical throughput of BLE is around 260 Kbps but the current practical implementations have much lower throughput values. In this work, the effect of important parameters related to the BLE connection and the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) protocol on the throughput and power consumption of the system has been studied based on practical laboratory experiments. The throughput was found to increase almost linearly with the number of characteristics and characteristic size used in a BLE application. Additionally, the throughput was found to have an inverse relationship with the connection interval. The average current consumed while the device is connected was found to have a proportional relationship with the number of characteristics and characteristic size and therefore the battery life of a BLE device is greatly affected by these variables. Understanding these results is crucial to BLE system designers and developer because it allows them to design their systems in a way that suits their needs optimally.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

5-2013

Subject

Bluetooth technology; Wireless communication systems

Keyword

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Discipline

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

xii, 59 leaves

Language

English

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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