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Interference in the 2.4 GHz ISM Band: Challenges and Solutions
Overview Most emerging radio technologies for Wireless Personal Area Networks such as the Bluetooth protocol are designed to operate in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. Since both Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 devices use the same frequency band and may likely come together in a laptop or may be close together at a desktop, interference may lead to significant performance degradation. The main goal of this paper is to describe the interference problem and to highlight a coexistence framework for these technologies to operate in a proximal environment. It gives an overview of several coexistence solutions proposed for various interference scenarios. This paper presents several factors that may impact interference such as fragmentation and the choice of packet encapsulation and give simulation results for selected scenarios and configurations of interest.
| Publisher | National Institute of Standards and Technology | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | June 2001 | Downloads | 24 |
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