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>Research Colloquium Sponsored by the Telecom Research Group
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>Bluetooth: technology and applications
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>Date: Friday, April 12
>Time: 3:00pm
>Place: Engineering Center 831 (take elevator to 8th floor)
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>Per Johansson
>Ericsson Inc.
>Berkeley, CA
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>Abstract:
>Today, most mobile professionals travel with cellphone and laptop, and
>often need to interconnect them to browse the web or send e-mail. After
>getting entangled with cables,  they soon appreciate the convenience of
>interconnecting all personal devices instantly and wirelessly in a
>personal LAN (PAN). This is the first type of application  cable
>replacement  that has driven the development of the Bluetooth wireless
>LAN, an extremely versatile, low cost network interface soon to be
>installed in all personal devices (from cellphone and cameras to
>earphones). From the initial cable replacement concept based on the
>Piconet, the range of Bluetooth applications has quickly expanded to
>more challenging scenarios including:  ad hoc networking among several
>personal Piconets; access to the Internet (via a repeater on the wall),
>and; pervasive, unconscious computing, ie, interaction between mobile
>user and the environment, through devices such as parking  meters and
>airport check in counters.  This broad set of applications in part
>overlaps with those of several other wireless technologies (IEEE802.11,
>HomeRF, DECT, IrDa, etc). It is thus of interest to understand how
>Bluetooth will replace/complement (or be integrated with) existing
>systems. The presentation gives a review of the Bluetooth technology
>with emphasis on lower layers (physical, MAC and network), that have
>the most impact on performance. It will identify some representative
>scenarios for typical Bluetooth application areas ranging from cable
>replacement to unconscious computing.
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>Bio:
>Per Johansson is a senior researcher at Ericsson Corporate Research an
>he is currently located at the Ericsson Wireless Research Center in
>Berkeley, CA. He holds Master of Science and Licentiate degrees in
>electrical engineering. He joined Ericsson in 1992 to work with traffic
>management and performance analysis of ATM networks, but later moved
>into research on wireless systems. Since 1998, his research has focused
>on ad hoc networks and in particular, on Bluetooth ad hoc networking.
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>Host: Tim Brown 303-492-1630 timxb@colorado.edu
>For more talks in this series see http://trg.colorado.edu