Bluetooth Course: Operation, Security, Applications, Coexistence

Bluetooth Course: Operation, Security, Applications, Coexistence

 

Part 1:  Bluetooth Overview

• Bluetooth usage model and protocol stack
  • Categories of information transmission
  • Short range wireless features
  • Bluetooth protocol stack: Host and controller

Part 2: The Bluetooth Radio

• Propagation and ranging
  • RF modeling in indoor environments
  • Calculating maximum range
  • Eavesdropping vulnerability
• Modulation and radio performance
  • Frequency hopping spread spectrum and Bluetooth channel set
  • Basic rate (BR) and enhanced data rate (EDR) modulation
  • Low Energy (LE) modulation
  • Radio performance

Part 3: Baseband Signaling I

• BR/EDR functional operation
  • Master/slave timing
  • Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ)
  • Addressing methods
  • Packet structure
  • Error control
  • Frequency hop parameters
  • Logical transport
  • Throughput in perfect and imperfect channels

Part 4: Baseband Signaling II

• Bluetooth audio
  • Methods of voice encoding
  • SCO and eSCO packet structure and performance
  • SCO vs ACL for wireless audio
• BR/EDR device discovery, connection, and low-power modes
  • Operational state diagram
  • Paging and inquiry processes
  • Sniff, hold, and park modes
  • Scatternet operation
• LE baseband operation
  • State diagram
  • Addressing
  • Packet structure
  • Advertising, initiating, and connecting operation
  • Data channel and packet exchange

Part 5: Link Management

• Overview of Link Management Protocol (LMP)
• Link management operations
  • Link connection and detachment
  • Maintaining the link
• LMP packets and examples
  • Link setup
  • Link control

Part 6: Higher Protocols

• Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP)
  • L2CAP overview and purpose
  • Protocol multiplexing and channel definitions
  • L2CAP signaling and channel setup
• Service Discovery Protocol (SDP)
  • Client-server interaction
  • Service record and attributes
• LE Attribute Protocol (ATT)
  • ATT operation on attributes
  • ATT retrieval
• Host Controller Interface (HCI)
  • HCI overview and purpose
  • Summary of commands and events
  • HCI over USB transport example

Part 7: Profiles

• Profile purpose and interaction
• Generic Access Profile (GAP)
  • Purpose
  • BR/EDR operational modes
  • LE functions and roles
• Headset Profile (HSP) and Handsfree Profile (HFP) [BR/EDR]
  • Fundamentals
  • Connections and usage
  • HSP and HFP comparison
• Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) [BR/EDR]
  • Protocol stack
  • Streaming process
  • A2DP and HSP comparison
• LE profile examples
  • Generic Attribute (GATT) Profile
  • Find-Me Profile (FMP)

Part 8: Security

• Overview
• Shared and Public Key cryptography
• Attack methods
• Summary of legacy security
  • Link key generation and initialization
  • Combination key derivation
  • Authentication
  • Encryption
• Secure Simple Pairing

Part 9: Qualification and Test

• Qualification
  • Requirements
  • Program overview
  • Types of Bluetooth products
  • Steps to qualification
• Testing
  • Development tools
  • Component test mode
  • Examples of devices and performance

Part 10: Coexistence

• Coexistence overview
  • Bluetooth and Wi-Fi signal spectra
  • Interference modeling
• Bluetooth-on-Bluetooth coexistence
  • Range of vulnerability
  • Simulation analysis
• Bluetooth and Wi-Fi coexistence
  • Separated nodes
  • Collocated nodes
  • Examples and throughput analysis
• Improving coexistence and interference mitigation

Bluetooth Course Wrap-up: Course Recap, Discussion, and Evaluation

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