Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15)
A standard for Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)
- Provides networking in a very small area
- Up to 10 meters (current generation)
- Up to 100 meters (next generation)
- Includes small (1/3 of an inch square) and cheap devices designed to
- Replace short distance cabling between devices
- Keyboards, mouse, handsets, PDAs, etc
- Provides a basic data rate of 1 Mbps
- Can be divided into several voice and data channels
- Uses Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) for data transmission (1 bit per symbol)