Techniques to improve Bluetooth performance in interference environments

Bluetooth is a radio technology for wireless personal area networks operating 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 propose solutions to the interference problem consisting of power control adjustments and scheduling policies to be implemented by the Bluetooth device. Simulation results are given for selected scenarios and configurations of interest.