Ricerc@Sapienza

We propose and discuss BE-Mesh-Bluetooth low
Energy-Meshed network, a new paradigm for BLE (Bluetooth
Low Energy) that enables mesh networking among wirelessly
interconnected devices, both in a single hop and multi-hop
fashion. Starting from the classical Master/Slave paradigm of
Bluetooth, we build two new layers based on BLE stack that
allow the final user to set-up, in a fast way, the desired network
topology while hiding the complexity and low-level details of the
BLE stack. We also prototype, as a proof of concept, an open
source Android library [1] that implements our communication
paradigm and an 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.