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A Credit-Based On-Demand QoS Routing Protocol Over Bluetooth WPANs

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The quality-of-service (QoS) communication that supports mobile applications to guarantee bandwidth utilization is an important issue for Bluetooth wireless personal area networks (WPANs). In this paper, we address the problem of on-demand QoS routing with interpiconet scheduling in Bluetooth WPANs. A credit-based QoS (CQ) routing protocol is developed which considers different Bluetooth packet types, because different types of Bluetooth packets have different bandwidth utilization levels. This work improves the bandwidth utilization of Bluetooth scatternets by providing a new interpiconet scheduling scheme. This paper mainly proposes a centralized algorithm to improve the bandwidth utilization for the on-demand QoS routing protocol. The centralized algorithm incurs the scalability problem. To alleviate the scalability problem, a distributed algorithm is also investigated in this work. The performance analysis illustrates that our credit-based QoS routing protocol achieves enhanced performance compared to existing QoS routing protocols.

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    Yuh-Shyan Chen & Keng-Shau Liu

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This work was supported by the National Science Council of the Republic of China under grant nos. NSC-92-2213-E-194-022 and NSC-93-2213-E-194-028.

Yuh-Shyan Chen received the B.S. degree in computer science from Tamkang University, Taiwan, Republic of China, in June 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Central University, Taiwan, Republic of China, in June 1991 and January 1996, respectively. He joined the faculty of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Chung-Hua University, Taiwan, Republic of China, as an associate professor in February 1996. He joined the Department of Statistic, National Taipei University in August 2000, and joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University in August 2002. Dr. Chen served as Co-Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Editorial Board Member of Telecommunication System Journal, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT) and The Journal of Information, Technology and Society (JITAS). He also served as Guest Editor of Telecommunication Systems, special issue on “Wireless Sensor Networks” (2004), and Guest Editor of Journal of Internet Technology, special issue on “Wireless Internet Applications and Systems” (2002) and special issue on “Wireless Ad Hoc Network and Sensor Networks” (2004). He was a Vice Co-Chair, Wireless IP Symposium of WirelressCOM2005, USA (2005) and a Workshop Co-Chair of the 2001 Mobile Computing Workshop, Taiwan. Dr. Chen also served as IASTED Technical Committee on Telecommunications for 2002–2005, WSEAS International Scientific Committee Member (from 2004), Program Committee Member of IEEE ICPP'2003, IEEE ICDCS'2004, IEEE ICPADS'2001, ICCCN'2001–2005, MSN'2005, IASTED CCN'2002–2005, IASTED CSA'2004–2005, IASTED NCS'2005, and MSEAT'2003–2005. His paper wins the 2001 IEEE 15th ICOIN-15 Best Paper Award. Dr. Chen was a recipient of the 2005 Young Scholar Research Award given by National Chung Cheng University to four young faculty members, 2005. His recent research topics include mobile ad-hoc network, wireless sensor network, mobile learning system, and 4G system. Dr. Chen is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, IEICE Society, and Phi Tau Phi Society.

Keng-Shau Liu received the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, Republic of China, in July 2004. His research includes wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and mobile learning.

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Chen, YS., Liu, KS. A Credit-Based On-Demand QoS Routing Protocol Over Bluetooth WPANs. Wireless Pers Commun 38, 253–278 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-006-9014-0

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