PANs: between 1/3 and 10 meters
Provide cheap and portable wireless connectivity between mobile computing devices and access points
Connections are temporary, low power and low cost
Bluetooth (1999: IEEE 802.15 standard for 1 Mbps PANs)
Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connections
Piconets: two or more units sharing the same channel
Each is a master unit and up to seven slave units
Slaves participate in different piconets using time- division multiplexing
Scatternet: piconets with overlapping coverage areas
I. What is mbusiness?
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