Bluetooth performance analysis under IEEE802.11 interference in a fading channel

Abstract

In this article the issue of Bluetooth and IEEE802.11b coexistence in a heterogeneous environment is addressed by means of an analytical approach. The methodology proposed carefully takes physical (i.e., thermal noise, propagation, interference, modulation formats and coding techniques) as well as medium access control (frequency hopping, packet structures, traffic loads) aspects into account. This model can be easily implemented when developing system simulators avoiding, thus, the need of extensive bit level Monte-Carlo simulations at the physical level. Furthermore, having preliminarily fixed a quality of service level, namely the target mean PEP, we derive the coexistence domain of the two considered systems in terms of relative distance.