The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation
Department of Information Technology, Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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Sensors 2018, 18(8), 2409; https://doi.org/10.3390/s18082409
Received: 28 June 2018
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Revised: 19 July 2018
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Accepted: 20 July 2018
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Published: 25 July 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols, Architectures and Solutions)
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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Keywords:
BLE; Bluetooth Mesh; round-trip-time; IoT; scalability; performance; interoperability
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Baert, M.; Rossey, J.; Shahid, A.; Hoebeke, J. The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation. Sensors 2018, 18, 2409. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18082409
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Baert M, Rossey J, Shahid A, Hoebeke J. The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation. Sensors. 2018; 18(8):2409. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18082409
Chicago/Turabian StyleBaert, Mathias, Jen Rossey, Adnan Shahid, and Jeroen Hoebeke. 2018. "The Bluetooth Mesh Standard: An Overview and Experimental Evaluation" Sensors 18, no. 8: 2409. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18082409
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