Bluetooth: Connect Without Cables

Description

• Copyright 2001
• Edition: 1st

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-13-089840-6
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-089840-1

• The complete Bluetooth tutorial and reference for every professional
• Accessible, practical explanations of the entire Bluetooth standard
• Bluetooth applications, components, security, and development issues
• The future of Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 and beyond

Foreword by Joe Mendolia of CATC.

Introducing tomorrow's hottest wireless technology: Bluetooth!

Bluetooth wireless technology is on the verge of revolutionizing communications, enabling virtually any communications device to transmit voice or data securely, at high speed—without wires! Now there's a complete professional's guide to this remarkable technology. In Bluetooth: Connect Without Cables, two leading Bluetooth implementers explain the Bluetooth standard more clearly than it's ever been explained before. Even better, they place Bluetooth in context, covering global markets, applications, complementary technologies, connection to WAP, even leading-edge development issues. Coverage includes:

• Bluetooth: origins, goals, and key industry players
• How Bluetooth voice and data connections work: service discovery, piconets, scatternets, and other key concepts
• Key Bluetooth components: antennas, radios, host systems, profiles, and more
• The Bluetooth protocol stack, in depth: module layers, host layers, and cross-layer functions
• Securing Bluetooth communications
• Bluetooth production testing, conformance, and qualification
• The emerging market for Personal Area Networking devices, including other technologies related to Bluetooth.
• The future of Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0, Human Interface Devices, and more

Whether you're a systems designer, developer, manager, marketer, or customer, Bluetooth: Connect Without Cables shows you exactly how to exploit Bluetooth for simple, seamless, intuitive wireless communications—starting now.

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

1. Overview.
Bluetooth's Origins. The Bluetooth SIG. Aims. TheProtocol Stack. Security. Applications and Profiles. Using Bluetooth. Management. Test and Qualification. Bluetooth in Context. Summary.

PROTOCOL STACK PART I—THE BLUETOOTH MODULE.

2. Antennas.
Radiation Pattern. Gains and Losses. Types of Antennas. On-chip Antennas. Antenna Placement. Summary.

3. Radio Interface.
Introduction. Frequency Hopping. Modulation. Symbol Timing. Power Emission and Control. Radio Performance Parameters. Simple RP Architecture. RF System Timing. Blue RF. Summary.

4. Baseband.
Introduction. Bluetooth Device Address. Masters, Slaves, and Piconets. System Timing. Physical Links: SCO and ACL. Bluetooth Packet Structure. Packet Types and Packet Construction. Logical Channels. Channel Coding and Bitstream Processing. Timebase Synchronisation and Receive Correlation. Frequency Hopping. Summary.

5. The Link Controller.
Introduction. Link Control Protocol. Link Controller States. Link Controller Operation. Piconet Operation. Scatternet Operation. Master / Slave Role Switching. Low-power Operation. Baseband / Link Controller Architectural Overview. Summary.

6. Audio.
Introduction. Audio Transports in the Protocol Stack. Quality and Bandwidth. SCO Links. Audio CODECs. Audio Subsystem. Audio Data Formats and HCI. Implementation. Introduction.

7. The Link Manager.
LMP Protocol Data Units (PDUs). The Link Management Channel. Link Setup. LMP Link Shutdown. Role Change. Control of Multi-slot Packets. Security. Low-power Modes. Power Control. Quality of Service. Information Messages. Supported Features. LMP Version. Name Request. Test Mode. Summary.

8. The Host Controller Interface.
HCI Packet Types. The HCI Transport Layer. Flow Control. Configuring Modules. Inquiring: Discovering Other Bluetooth Devices. Inquiry Scan: Becoming Discoverable. Paging: Initiating Connections. Page Scan: Receiving Connections. Sending and Receiving Data. Switching Roles. Power Control. Summary.

PROTOCOL STACK PART II—THE BLUETOOTH HOST.

9. Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol.
Multiplexing Using Channels. L2CAP Signaling. Establishing a Connection. Configuring a Connection. Transferring Data. Disconnecting and Timeouts. Connectionless Data Channels. Enabling and Disabling Incoming Connectionless Traffic. Handling Groups. Echo and Ping. Get Information. L2CAP State Machine. Implementation-dependent Issues. Summary.

10. RFCOMM.
Serial Ports and UARTs. Types of RFCOMM Devices. RFCOMM Frame Types. Connecting and Disconnecting. Structure of RFCOMM Frames. Multiplexor Frames. Service Records. Summary.

11. The Service Discovery Protocol.
SDP Client/Server Model. The SDP Database. Browsing SDP Records. Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs). SDP Messages. Service Discovery Profile. Summary.

12. The Wireless Access Protocol.
The WAP Forum. The WAP Stack. PPP Links. WAP Clients and Servers. Suspend and Resume. Service Discovery. WAP Interoperability. Using WAP. Summary.

13. OBEX and IrDA.
OBEX in the Bluetooth Stack. Object Model. Session Protocol. Summary.

14. Telephony Control Protocol.
TCS Signalling. Call Establishment Signalling. Call Clearing Signalling. DTMF Signalling. Wireless User Group (WUG) Signalling. Connectionless Signalling. TCS Call States. Summary.

15. Applications: The Bluetooth Profiles.
Structure of Profiles. The Generic Access Profile. The Serial Port Profile. Dial up Networking. FAX Profile. Headset Profile. LAN Access Point Profile. Generic Object Exchange Profile. Object Push Profile. File Transfer Profile. Synchronisation Profile. Intercom Profile. The Cordless Telephony Profile. Benefits of Profiles. Summary.

PROTOCOL STACK PART III—CROSS LAYER FUNCTIONS.

16. Encryption and Security.
Key Generation and the Encryption Engine. Secret Keys and PINs. Pairing and Bonding. Starting Encryption. Security Modes. Security Architecture. Summary.

17. Low-power Operation.
Controlling Low-power Modes. Hold Mode. Sniff Mode. Park Mode. Low-power Oscillator. Summary.

18. Quality of Service.
Requesting QOS. QOS Violations. Flushing and Delays. Link Supervision. Broadcast Channel Reliability. Data Rates and Packet Types. Summary.

19. Managing Bluetooth Devices.
Link Configuration and Management. Device Manager Architecture. Security Management. Integrating Applications. Accounting Management. Capacity. User Interface Design. Summary.

Test and Qualification.

20. Test Mode.
Activating Test Mode. Controlling Test Mode. Radio Transmitter Test. Loopback Test. Summary.

21. Qualification and Type Approval.
Bluetooth Qualification. Bluetooth Interoperability Testing. Regulatory Type Approval. Summary.

Bluetooth in Context.

22. Implementation.
Introduction. System Partitioning. Hardware Integration Options. Bluetooth as an IP Core. ASIC Prototyping and FPGAs. Making the Right Design Choices. Radio Implementation. Summary.

23. Related Standards and Technologies.
Introduction. What Are the Requirements? Infrared Data Association (IrDA). Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT). IEEE 802.11. The HomeRF(tm) Working Group (HRFWG). IEEE 802.15 and the Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). HIPERLAN. MMAC. The Future. Summary. Useful Web Addresses.

24. The Bluetooth Market.
Introduction. Market Pull and Technology Push. Market Segments. Success in the Marketplace. Enabling Technologies and Components. Consumer Products. The Bluetooth Brand. Summary.

25. Future Developments.
New Bluetooth Profiles. Bluetooth Profile Working Groups. Coexistence with Other Wireless LAN Specifications in the ISM band. Bluetooth in Japanese 3G Handsets/UDI. Bluetooth Version 2.0. Summary.

Glossary.
References.
Index.

Preface

Preface

This book came about from a conversation in the Hotel Mercure bar in Brussels, Belgium. We had just finished the first day of client training in our Bluetooth solution, and hadn't said a single word about our implementation yet! Why? Well, Bluetooth was so new that nobody knew much about it, there were no textbooks, no courses, nothing but a thick specification document and a few white papers. So before we could begin to explain the fine details of what we'd done, we had to spend a day explaining the Bluetooth specification. After the first beer, we thought somebody ought to write a book about Bluetooth; after the second beer, we thought we should do it; after the last beer, we had a contents page.

Why the title? Well, "Connect without Cables" is basically what Bluetooth started out doing. It's a short range wireless communication system, and the word "wireless" pretty much says it all. The first applications people came up with were all about throwing away the clutter of cables that plagues modern portable devices—Bluetooth took away the cable dangling from a headset, removed the clutter of wires at the back of a PC, and let a phone talk to a PDA without needing a cable that took up more pocket space than either device. Now there are more imaginative uses than straight cable replacement, from small wireless office networks to the much hyped Personal Area Network, or PAN. But the basic functionality that Bluetooth provides is still the same: connection without cables.

During the last year or so, we have seen a Bluetooth system design evolve from abstract idea to evaluation board. Along the way, we struggled to understand the Bluetooth specification. Some parts of it don't make sense until you've read later parts, some parts don't make sense until you've tried them out, and some of the parts we started with will never make sense and have since been corrected. The specification is in a much better state than the preliminary versions we started with, but like all such things, it's still not an easy read. So this book aims to provide people working with Bluetooth an easier introduction than the one we had.

A new version of the Bluetooth specification (version 1.1) is due to be published during the 4th quarter of 2000. In order to keep this text consistent, we only consider the existing version 1.0B specification except for one or two proposed corrections for v1.1 which are especially worth mentioning here. Although these are mostly minor improvements and clarifications to the existing 1.0B specification, it is important for the reader to keep abreast of any revisions particularly since there may well be other refinements before the major evolution which Bluetooth 2.0 will represent. To facilitate this, there is a companion Website to accompany Bluetooth: Connect Without Cables where we will place any errata and useful updates to the text as Bluetooth evolves.

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