We proposed and discussed BE-Mesh-Bluetooth Low Energy-Meshed network, a new paradigm for BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) that enables mesh networking between wirelessly interconnected devices, both in single-hop and multi-hop fashion. Starting from the classical Master / Slave paradigm of Bluetooth, we build the new BLE stack. We also prototype, as a proof of concept, an open source Androidlibrary that implements our communication paradigm and Android application that allows the exchange of text messages across the mesh network.Last, we demonstrate how BE-Mesh enables Internet access sharing with the whole mesh from a single Internet-connected device.
BE-Mesh Network
