BLESS: BLE-aided swift Wi-Fi scanning in multi-protocol IoT networks

Wonbin Park; Dokyun Ryoo; Changhee Joo; Saewoong Bahk

doi:10.1109/INFOCOM42981.2021.9488795

BLESS: BLE-aided swift Wi-Fi scanning in multi-protocol IoT networks

Wonbin Park, Dokyun Ryoo, Changhee Joo, Saewoong Bahk

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Abstract

Wi-Fi scanning that searches neighboring access points (APs) is an essential prerequisite for Wi-Fi operations such as initial association and handover. As the traffic demand increases, APs are more densely deployed and the number of operating Wi-Fi channels also increases, which, however, results in additional scanning delay and makes the scanning a burdensome task. In this paper, we note that the co-location of Wi-Fi protocol with BLE protocol is a common practice in IoT networks, and develop a Wi-Fi passive scanning framework that uses BLE to assist scanning. Although the framework has great potential to improve scanning performance without explicit message exchanges, there are technical challenges related to time synchronization and channel switching delay. We address the challenges and develop a practical passive scanning scheme, named BLESS-Sync. We verify its performance through testbed experiments and extensive simulations, and show that BLESS-Sync significantly outperforms legacy Wi-Fi scanning in terms of scanning delay and energy efficiency.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9780738112817
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM42981.2021.9488795
Publication status	Published - 2021 May 10
Event	40th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2021 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 2021 May 10 → 2021 May 13

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
Volume	2021-May
ISSN (Print)	0743-166X

Conference

Conference	40th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2021
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	21/5/10 → 21/5/13

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Institute of Information communications Technology Planning Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No.2018-0-00923), in part by Institute for Information communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2018-0-00815), and in part by the MSIT, Korea, under the ICT Creative Consilience program (IITP-2020-0-01819) supervised by the IITP.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.

Keywords

Bluetooth low energy
IoT
Scheduling
Wi-Fi scanning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Computer Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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BLESS: BLE-aided swift Wi-Fi scanning in multi-protocol IoT networks. / Park, Wonbin; Ryoo, Dokyun; Joo, Changhee et al.
INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. 9488795 (Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM; Vol. 2021-May).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Park, W, Ryoo, D, Joo, C & Bahk, S 2021, BLESS: BLE-aided swift Wi-Fi scanning in multi-protocol IoT networks. in INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications., 9488795, Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM, vol. 2021-May, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 40th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2021, Vancouver, Canada, 21/5/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM42981.2021.9488795

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