Performance and Trade-offs of the new PHY Modes of BLE 5

Michael Spörk; Carlo Alberto Boano; Kay Uwe Römer

Performance and Trade-offs of the new PHY Modes of BLE 5

Institute of Technical Informatics (4480)

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Abstract

With the release of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) version 5, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group introduced three additional physical (PHY) modes for BLE communication. These PHY modes enable an application to either double its throughput, or significantly improve its reliability, making BLE applicable to an even wider range of application domains. Unfortunately, no experimental study has yet investigated the actual performance of BLE 5’s PHY modes in BLE connections or shown their trade-offs between energy efficiency, reliability, and throughput. Thus, how to use BLE 5’s PHY modes to achieve specific application requirements is still an open question. To fill this gap, we experimentally study the performance of all four BLE 5 PHY modes in BLE connections and observe that it is, indeed, possible to double BLE’s throughput or to increase BLE’s reliability by using the new PHY modes. Furthermore, we provide guidelines using our measurements on how to select the most suitable PHY mode based on specific application requirements.

Original language	English
Pages	7-12
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 2019
Event	ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Pervasive Systems in the IoT Era - Catania, Italy Duration: 2 Jul 2019 → 2 Jul 2019 Conference number: 1

Workshop

Workshop	ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Pervasive Systems in the IoT Era
Abbreviated title	PERSIST-IoT
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Catania
Period	2/07/19 → 2/07/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Bluetooth Low Energy
BLE
Throughput
Reliability

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

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SCOTT - Secure Connected Trustable Things
Boano, C. A. (Project manager on research unit), Hofmann, R. (Attendee / Assistant) & Römer, K. U. (Attendee / Assistant)
1/05/17 → 30/06/20
Project: Research project
Dependable Internet of Things
Pernkopf, F. (Contact person), Zakany, N. (Contact person), Eichlseder, M. (Contact person), Saukh, O. (Contact person), Mangard, S. (Contact person), Steinbauer-Wagner, G. (Contact person), Knoll, C. (Attendee / Assistant), Tranninger, M. (Attendee / Assistant), Römer, K. U. (Consortium manager resp. coordinator of internal research units), Rath, M. (Attendee / Assistant), Kubin, G. (Contact person), Horn, M. (Contact person), Tappler, M. (Attendee / Assistant), Bloem, R. (Consortium manager resp. coordinator of internal research units), Weiser, S. (Attendee / Assistant), Leitinger, E. (Contact person), Ebrahimi, M. (Attendee / Assistant), Aichernig, B. (Contact person), Malenko, M. (Attendee / Assistant), Steinberger, M. (Contact person), Großwindhager, B. (Attendee / Assistant), Baunach, M. C. (Contact person), Witrisal, K. (Contact person), Teschl, R. (Contact person), Boano, C. A. (Contact person), Alothman Alterkawi, A. B. (Attendee / Assistant), Bösch, W. (Contact person) & Grosinger, J. (Contact person)
1/01/16 → 31/03/22
Project: Research project
Intelligent & Networked Embedded Systems
Mohamed Hydher, M. H. (Attendee), Boano, C. A. (Contact person), Stocker, M. (Attendee), Schuß, M. (Attendee), Krisper, M. (Contact person), Schuh, M. P. (Attendee), Saukh, O. (Contact person), Brunner, H. (Attendee), Salomon, E. (Attendee), Kajmakovic, A. (Attendee), Römer, K. U. (Coordinator), Hofmann, R. (Attendee), Papst, F. (Attendee), Petrović, K. (Attendee), Gallacher, M. (Attendee), Wang, D. (Attendee), Corti, F. (Attendee), Basic, F. (Attendee) & Cao, N. (Attendee)
1/09/13 → 31/12/24
Project: Research area

Performance and Trade-offs of the new PHY Modes of BLE 5
Spörk, M. (Speaker)
2 Jul 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at workshop, seminar or course › Science to science

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Performance and Trade-offs of the new PHY Modes of BLE 5

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UN SDGs

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Dependable Internet of Things

Intelligent & Networked Embedded Systems

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Performance and Trade-offs of the new PHY Modes of BLE 5

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