Piconet

A piconet is a personal area network of end devices that are connected via Bluetooth . The name is made up of the words "pico" (Romansh: small ) and " network ".

A piconet occurs when at least two devices such as B. connect a notebook and a mobile phone . A point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connection is possible between these devices , with one device acting as the “ master ” and the other as the “ slave ”. The devices are identified by the AMA (ActiveMemberAddress, 3 bit). In addition, participating devices can also be in a passive mode, either “ Standby ” or “Parked”, and are identified using the PMA (PassiveMemberAddress, 8 Bit). Thanks to the 8-bit address, up to approx. 200 (theoretically 2 ⁸ = 256) Bluetooth devices can remain in standby mode. When several piconets are combined, one speaks of a scatternet .

literature

• Aftab Ahmad: Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. John Wiley & Sons Inc, New Jersey 2005, ISBn 978-0-471-67095-9.
• Jürgen Scherff: Basic course in computer networks. 2nd edition, Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8348-0366-5 .
• Shao-Qiu Xiao, Ming-Tuo Zhou (Eds.): Millimeter Wave Technology in Wireless PAN, LAN, and MAN. Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton 2008, ISBN 978-0-8493-8227-7 .
• Jeffrey S. Beasley, Piyasat Nilkaew: Networking Essentials. Pearson Education Inc, 2015, ISBN 978-0-7897-4903-1 .

See also

• Scatternet
• Computer network
• Bluetooth

Web links

• BLUETOOTH PICONET APPLICATIONS (accessed August 3, 2017)
• Piconet interconnection strategies in IEEE 802.15.3 networks (accessed August 3, 2017)
• An Android Application for Blue tooth Multicasting in a Piconet (accessed August 3, 2017)
• Ad-Hoc Formation of Bluetooth Piconet and IP Allocation (accessed August 3, 2017)
• Wireless LAN, Mobile Internet Connectivity, and Personal Area Network (accessed August 3, 2017)