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transmission. The latest version of Bluetooth technology is 2.0+ Enhanced Data<br />

Rate, which supports a data rate of 3 Mbps.<br />

You can use Bluetooth for the following:<br />

Connect to your PC or laptop to transfer files.<br />

Share data with other users - including contacts, diary entries, documents<br />

and photos<br />

Connect to the Internet for surfing or email, via a Bluetooth-enabled modem<br />

or access point<br />

Connect to a Bluetooth GPS unit for satellite navigation<br />

Basic operation<br />

The functionality of Bluetooth communication is based on frequency hopping<br />

system with a nominal hopping rate of 1600 hops per second. The hops are divided<br />

into time slots, each 625 µsec long. The reason why Bluetooth uses frequency<br />

hopping is for low interference and fading. For full duplex transmission it uses TDD<br />

(Time Division Duplex) scheme and transmits by using GFSK (Gaussian Frequency<br />

Shift Keying) modulation.<br />

Bluetooth protocol uses a mixture of circuit and packet switching. The protocol<br />

stack can use an asynchronous connection–less (ACL) link for data and up to three<br />

simultaneous synchronous connection-oriented (SCO) links for voice or a mixture of<br />

asynchronous voice (DV packet type). When two or more application are connected<br />

to the same channel in Bluetooth network it creates a piconet, which contains a<br />

master device and up to seven active slave devices. Interference becomes greater in<br />

Bluetooth communication when the amount of piconet increases. This courses a<br />

packet collision that needs retransmission. The reason to this is because of the<br />

randomly frequency hopping system provided by the Bluetooth communication<br />

amongst a total of 79 frequencies. A Bluetooth device can function in either master<br />

or slave mode. The maximum number of device which a piconet can contain is eight<br />

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