MORÓN FERNÁNDEZ , María José

This paper presents an analytical model to compute the minimum delay of Bluetooth 2.0 transmissions. The model, which is focused on connections using Serial Port Profile (SPP), characterizes in detail the effects of employing the Enhanced Date Rates introduced by the new version of the standard, which is widely implemented in most commercial...

Bluetooth (BT) is by far the most popular shortrange technology for the development of wireless personal area networks and body area networks. Nowadays, BT 2.0 and 2.1 ? EDR are the most extended and implemented versions of BT standard. This article presents an analytical model that computes the packet delay of transmissions that utilize this...

Bluetooth (BT) is a leading technology for the deployment of wireless Personal Area Networks and Body Area Networks. Versions 2.0 and 2.1 of the standard, which are massively implemented in commercial devices, improve the throughput of the BT technology by enabling the so-called Enhanced Data Rates (EDR). EDRs are achieved by utilizing new...

This paper evaluates and characterizes the technical performance of medical wireless personal area networks (WPANs) that are based on smartphones. For this purpose, a prototype of a health telemonitoring system is presented. The prototype incorporates a commercial Android smartphone, which acts as a relay point, or "gateway", between a set of...

Bluetooth is a key connectivity technology for the deployment of wireless Personal Area Networks as far as it is the most popular low power communication feature incorporated in devices such as laptops or smartphones. This paper proposes an analytical model to predict the delay of the transmissions in Bluetooth piconets employing Serial Port...

Falls are a major cause of health and psychological problems as well as hospitalization costs among older adults. Thus, the investigation on automatic Fall Detection Systems (FDSs) has received special attention from the research community during the last decade. In this area, the widespread popularity, decreasing price, computing capabilities,...

Bluetooth is a key connectivity technology for the deployment of wireless Personal Area Networks as far as it is the most popular low power communication feature incorporated in devices such as laptops or smartphones. This paper proposes an analytical model to predict the delay of the transmissions in Bluetooth piconets employing Serial...

This paper presents a wireless medical monitoring system. The system permits to receive and process in a single concentrator node (e.g. a laptop or a simple handheld device) the pulse-oximetry signals from one ore several monitored patients without using any wired infrastructure. The system, which is based on a piconet of Bluetooth sensors, can...

Falls are a foremost source of injuries and hospitalization for seniors. The adoption of automatic fall detection mechanisms can noticeably reduce the response time of the medical staff or caregivers when a fall takes place. Smartphones are being increasingly proposed as wearable, cost-effective and not-intrusive systems for fall detection. The...

Introduction to the proceedings of the 15th edition of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference on Simulation Tools and Tech niques (SIMUtools 2023).

Bluetooth is the most employed technology to develop Wireless Personal Area Networks. This letter studies the performance of Bluetooth transmissions that make use of the PAN (Personal Area Network) profile. In particular, the study offers an analytical model that defines the optimal bound for the end-to-end data delay. The proposed 'delay...

Bluetooth is currently a major technology for the deployment of wireless short range communications. This paper presents an ana-lytical model to compute the delay of Bluetooth transmissions with Serial Port Profile (SPP), which is nowadays widely utilized by commercial Bluetooth-enabled devices. In particular, the pro-posed equations permit to...

Currently, Bluetooth is the most widely used technology for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). Quality-of-Service (QoS) support is critical to ensure bandwidth maximization for mobile applications based on this WPAN technology. The overhead introduced by the different layers of Bluetooth protocol may have a serious impact on...

This letter presents an analytical model to compute the delay of Bluetooth transmissions with Serial Port Profile (SPP) when interferences cause packet retransmissions. In particular, the model takes into consideration the overhead and segmentation introduced by the protocol stack as well as the extra delay provoked by the retransmissions. The...

Bluetooth is by far the most employed technology to develop practical applications of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). This paper studies the performance of Bluetooth transmissions that make use of the Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network) profile. In particular, the study offers an analytical model that defines the optimal bound for the...

This paper presents a prototype of a telemonitoring system, based on a BAN (Body Area Network) that is integrated by a Bluetooth (BT) pulse oximeter, a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit, and a smartphone. The smartphone is the hardware platformfor running a Python software thatmanages the Bluetooth piconet formed by the sensors. Thus the...