scheduling mobile data services in a bluetooth在蓝牙调度移动数据服务.pdf

Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2010, 3, 311-320 doi:10.4236/ijcns.2010.33040 Published Online March 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcns/). Scheduling Mobile Data Services in a Bluetooth Based Platform Xiaoyu Liu, Kin Choong Yow School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore Email : liu.xiaoyu .mac@gmail .com, kcyow@.sg Received November 4, 2009; revised December 10, 2009; accepted January 8, 2010 Abstract Public buses play an important role in public transportation in most parts of the world and it is still the dominant public transportation mode in some regions. Nowadays, as people switch to a mobile lifestyle, they spend significant amount of time on the traveling to work, back and forth. However, not much research has been done on how to provide some on-board service for those commuters in the public bus. This paper pre- sents a Bluetooth-based system which is inexpensive, yet flexible, and scalable to serve commuters in a per- sonalized manner using Bluetooth enabled mobile phones. However, from the Bluetooth specification, one Bluetooth dongle can connect to at most seven other Bluetooth devices. As we expect more than 7 users to use the services provided in the Bluetooth-based system (a full double-deck bus can carry around 100 pas- sengers), we need to work out an effective scheduler to schedule all the private services on the Bluetooth servers in the bus. This paper also describes a scheduling algorithm that exploits the park mode feature of the Bluetooth specification to allow more users to have access to the Bluetooth services on the bus. Keywords: Mobile Device, Bluetooth, Public Bus, Data Service 1. Introduction