Subject: Open Source Bluetooth simulator

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:56:37 +0530

Hi,

BlueHoc, an open-source Bluetooth technology simulator has been released on
IBM developerWorks.

It is available for download at:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bluehoc/

The documentation and performance info is at the BlueHoc website:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/bluehoc/

BlueHoc is a Bluetooth extension to Network Simulator (ns-2.1b7a) available
from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns
It addresses the following key issues in Bluetooth piconets:

-Device Discovery performance of Bluetooth.
-Connection Establishment and QoS negotiation.
-Medium access control scheduling schemes.
-Radio characteristics of Bluetooth system.
-Statistical modeling of the indoor wireless channel.
-Performance of TCP/IP based applications over Bluetooth.

Basic features of the following Bluetooth layers have been simulated:

-Bluetooth radio.
-Bluetooth baseband.
-Link Manager Protocol.
-Logical Link Control and Adapatation Protocol (L2CAP).

Though the current version of BlueHoc does not support Bluetooth
scatternets, this feature will be included in the
next release (sometime in March). This will provide a platform for testing
performance of various ad-hoc routing
protocols over Bluetooth.

Regards,
APURVA