- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (21 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130902942
- ISBN-13: 978-0130902948
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #31 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Networking & Security > Wireless > Bluetooth
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The Bluetooth specification, which describes a way for electronic devices to communicate with one another at close range by means of radio signals, has great potential. The open standard promises to make mobile phones, personal organisers, and digital cameras wireless and far easier to use. In Bluetooth Revealed, a couple of experts who helped hammer out the Bluetooth specification (version 1.0B, specifically) take a shot at elaborating upon what's in the standards documents. They also share some of their imaginings about how Bluetooth connectivity might be put to use. The result of their efforts is a surprisingly readable book that should fit the needs of hardware and software developers planning to support the Bluetooth platform.
After some discussion of wireless devices and the generalities of the Bluetooth specification, the authors approach their subject in progressively greater detail, defining terms and referring to conceptual diagrams as they go. Emphasizing protocols that are unique to Bluetooth communication (such as RFCOMM, which allows applications to treat a radio link exactly like a hard-wired serial port), the authors show exactly how Bluetooth devices arrange themselves into wireless networks. They then explain how the networked devices exchange commands, files, and multimedia streams. They give fair hearing to the specification's shortcomings too, noting for example that it's okay for sharing voice signals among devices but not so good for sharing high-quality music signals.
The authors of Bluetooth Revealed would be the first to concede that the Bluetooth standard is evolving, and will certainly change faster as more manufacturers adopt and supplement it. Regardless, this book is a valuable statement of the Bluetooth vision, straight from a couple of its creators. --David Wall
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Format:Paperback
This book is a complement to the bluetooth specifikation and gives you an overview on the bluetooth technology. It is best read together with the specifikation. The book describes why and how the the protocol stack and the profiles evolved in a very informative way. It does not give you any detailed examples on how implementation could be done.
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
This book will become the Bluetooth technology primer!
5 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
I found this to be a expectedly well-written book for one covering a technical subject so well. It is written from the perspective of insider-engineers who were hands on in the development of the Bluetooth wireless specification. I found the background, development history and methodology particularly facinating. The technical components of the specification are laid out in a logical sequence and the book is written in an easy to understand manner and with the intention that the reader understands the technology. These are obviously not guys off in some Ivory Tower, but rather they are highly skilled engineers who are willing and able to speak with those of us who are not so deep into the technology. Highly recommended.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
For beginner, 4 stars. For advanced reader, 3 stars
22 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
For Beginner -- This book basically is the shorter and with more understandable english version of the confusing and lengthy spec. For a beginner, try to read the spec is not very easy. Tis book provides a good starting point. However, this book doesn't tell the whole story, such like the relation between L2CAP channel and baseband channel. The initiator of the L2CAP channel must be the Master of the piconet?? Such confuing concept is not well explained in this book for a beginner and when the beginner starting picking up, he should start finding many such ill-explained (or not explained) concept in this book.
For advanced reader -- This book tells something but doesn't answer the common confusion in the spec. One example is that on p.134, it said the L2CAP_Connection_Request is for a connection-oriented channel and a PSM value is needed. However, on p.130, the connection-oriented PDU, there is no PSM value and PSM only exists in connectionless channel as shown on p.129. Maybe the answer is somewhere in the book but I haven't found it. So in short this book resolves some confusions in the spec but it also brings up more confusions.
Overall, I think this book is worthy of owning and I strongly recommend it to everybody who who wants to study Bluetooth technology. However I don't think it deserves 5 stars as other people have given to it. It is just the author could have done better and I am hoping that they can make more explainations and solve many people's confusions (go to www.bluetooth.com forum and www.egroups.com bluetooth discussion, it is not difficult to find the common confusions that peopel have) instead of rewriting the spec with better english.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A valuable tool for wireless application developers!
19 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
Well written with valuable content for wireless application developers that need to develop Bluetooth solutions. This book provides information complimentary to the actual Bluetooth specifications and allows one to really use the specifications to develop product. This book is good example of why software developers often purchase books from the authors of a given technology as it provides insight into the specification and technology that those not directly involved could! I highly recommend this book to others that are in need of Bluetooth information to build actual Bluetooth products and applications.
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