Local area wireless communication apparatus and method
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsIl-Soon JANG, Seong-hee Lee, Seong Hee Park, Sangsung Choi
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for local area communication between Bluetooth and MBOA-MAC devices is provided. A new Bluetooth Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) is implemented to adapt a Bluetooth host module and an MBOA-MAC to each other so as to enable use of conventional legacy Bluetooth applications in a wireless network environment employing a WiMedia Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA)-based Media Access Control (MAC) layer. This allows devices equipped with a conventional Bluetooth host module to perform high-speed data communication based on MBOA-MAC, thereby increasing the efficiency of utilization of networks.
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A local area wireless communication apparatus connected to a host control interface that interfaces with a Bluetooth host module, the apparatus comprising:
- a Bluetooth protocol adaptation unit for performing adaptation of data transmitted/received between the Bluetooth host module and a Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Alliance-Media Access Control (MBOA-MAC)-based device module.
A local area wireless communication apparatus comprising:
- a Bluetooth host module;
- a host control interface connected to the Bluetooth host module;
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- a Bluetooth protocol adaptation unit connected to the host control interface for performing adaptation of data transmitted/received between the Bluetooth host module and an MBOA-MAC-based device module.
A method for local area wireless communication in a Bluetooth and MBOA-MAC-based network environment, the method comprising:
- generating, at an upper Bluetooth host module, a control command for controlling operation of a lower MBOA-MAC-based device module;
- adapting the control command generated at the Bluetooth host module to an MBOA-MAC-based device protocol readable by the MBOA-MAC-based device module;
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- performing MBOA-MAC-based local area communication with a neighboring device according to the control command of the Bluetooth host module adapted to the MBOA-MAC-based device protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.