[Bluez-users] periodic inquiry mode.

Uichin (Eugene) Lee
2006-11-26T00:58:20Z

Dear All,

I have a real quick question on a periodic inquiry mode defined in
Bluetooth spec. as of 1.1 standard. It's also called a symmetric
discovery procedure and we could initiate this by feeding feed min and
max values for inquiry intervals as well as # of inquiries to be
performed. However, it's only defined in HCI and I realized that it's
pretty tough to use it in the application layer (since we're using a
high level programming using sockets). We recently wrote a paper on
P2P file sharing using bluetooth and there, we used application layer
emulation for this periodic inquiry mode; specifically, we used
HCI_inquiry to discover nodes, but we simply used a socket to listen
to a port to make a node available for discovery (i.e., implicitly in
inquiry/page scan mode). Is there any better way that we could
actually exploit this, yet exploiting high-level programming features
of Bluez?

Thank you.

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Uichin (Eugene) Lee
Ph.D. Student UCLA CS Dept.