Issue on implementation Possibility of Bluetooth Mesh Capabilities into OmNET++

Abstract

Navigation was always important to humankind. Today, it is unimaginable to navigate in the world without the Global Positioning System. Although, the Global Positioning System operates very accurately outdoors but does not in indoor environments. Unfortunately, the indoor navigation is still in its infancy. However, several approaches have been proposed during the last decade but none of them is accurate and/or inexpensive enough for the consumer use. According to the authors' proposal, utilization of a hybrid mesh network might solve the inaccuracy. The mesh technology would offer an accurate, fast, adaptive, self-organizing, self-healing and inexpensive solution for the indoor positioning. A hybrid mesh network would involve some technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID or IQRF. Fortunately, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced the mesh capability in the Bluetooth 5 standard in 2017. However, building up a physical network is always expensive experiment, thus simulations would be executed in a OmNET++. In this paper, the implementation possibility of the Bluetooth mesh capabilities will be analyzed.