Bluetooth Low Energy throughput in densely deployed radio environment

Armands Ancans (1) , Juris Ormanis (1) , Ricards Cacurs (1) , Modris Greitans (1) , Elise Saoutieff (2) , Adrien Faucon (2) , Sébastien Boisseau (2)

1 Institute of Electronics and Computer Science
2 DSYS - Département Systèmes

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a promising 2.4 GHz technology for Body Area Networks (BAN) in health care and lifestyle applications. However, the global increase of wireless devices using the crowded spectrum in the 2.4 GHz frequency band can create coexistence issues. This work studies the performance of BLE in environments with multiple BLE devices. An experimental setup consisting of 10 BLE nodes is used to measure BLE application throughput with different connection parameters and under different interference sources, such as other BLE devices and WiFi. The results quantify the decrease of the application throughput and the influence of BLE connection parameters in the experimental settings, as well as suggest parameter values suitable for densely deployed environments.

Keywords: Low energy; Throughput; Interference; Coexistence; Body sensor networks.; Bluetooth

Domains: Electronics

Armands Ancans, Juris Ormanis, Ricards Cacurs, Modris Greitans, Elise Saoutieff, et al.. Bluetooth Low Energy throughput in densely deployed radio environment. 23rd International Conference Electronics IEEE, IEEE, Jun 2019, Palanga, Lithuania. pp.1-5, ⟨10.1109/ELECTRONICS.2019.8765577⟩. ⟨cea-03579895⟩