Bluetooth Piconets
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Imagine you have a typical modern living room with typical modern materials in it. There’s an entertainment system with stereo, DVD-player, satellite TV receiver and TV, there is also a wireless phone and a PC. All this systems use Bluetooth, and each forms its own piconet to talk between the main unit and peripheral.
Wireless phone is only Bluetooth transmitter to the base and the other in the phone. The Producer programmed each unit with an address that falls in the range of addresses it has established for a specific type of device. When the base is firstly switched on, it sends radio signals asking a response from any device with an address in a certain range. Since the phone has an address from the range, it gives response, and the tiny network is formed. Now, even if one of these devices should receive a signal from another system, it will ignore that because it is not on line. Computer and entertainment system go through similar procedures, creating a connection between the addresses in the range of established producers. Once installed the network, systems begin talking among themselves. Each piconet hops randomly through the available frequencies, so that all the piconets are completely separated from each other.
So the living room has established three separate networks, each of which consists of devices that know the address of transmitters it should listen and address of the receiver, it must talk to. So if every network is changing its frequency many times in the second place, it is unlikely that all two networks will be on the same frequency at the same time. If you find that they, as a result of confusion will only cover a tiny fraction of a second, and software designed to correct such errors weeds out of confusing information and gets on with the business network.