Bluetooth Demystified (McGraw-Hill Telecom) Book

Wireless communication is slowly becoming reality. In a wireless world, a printer is installed automatically after it is powered on. Keyboard and mouse cables no longer become hopelessly tangled. Palm Pilots and mobile phones automatically synchronise and communicate. Providing this sort of seamless, wireless communication--at a low cost--is the goal of Bluetooth technology.Bluetooth Demystified is a solid overview of Bluetooth technology for data communication professionals who want to learn more about this new wireless specification. In many ways, it mirrors the official and more technical Bluetooth 1.0 specification (available online). For those familiar with the official specification, many of the diagrams will be familiar, and much of the basic information is the same. This book does not provide explicit information for programmers looking to implement Bluetooth support, but if you want an accessible introduction to Bluetooth technology, it does the job.Structured to provide an increasingly technical overview of Bluetooth, the book begins with a general overview of wireless technology and provides the motivation for Bluetooth. This creates a solid foundation for the following chapters, which give technical descriptions of the various Bluetooth communication protocols. Chapters on security and proposed usage models flesh out this new wireless communication specification.New technology platforms always require a critical mass before becoming a broadly accepted standard, and Bluetooth is no different. Success for this technology is not guaranteed, even though an impressive list of companies have promised to implement Bluetooth in their products. Whether Bluetooth is the next Microsoft BOB or the next Palm Pilot remains to be seen. --Pete OstensonRead More