Bluebee: A 10,000x faster cross-technology communication via PHY emulation

Wenchao Jiang; Zhijun Li; Zhimeng Yin; Song Min Kim; Ruofeng Liu; Tian He

doi:10.1145/3131672.3131678

Bluebee: A 10,000x faster cross-technology communication via PHY emulation

Wenchao Jiang, Zhijun Li, Zhimeng Yin, Song Min Kim, Ruofeng Liu, Tian He

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Cross-Technology Communication is a promising solution proposed recently to the coexistence problem of heterogeneous wireless technologies in the ISM bands. The existing works use only the coarse-grained packet-level information for cross-technology modulation, suffering from a low throughput (e.g., 10bps). Our approach, called BlueBee, proposes a new direction by emulating legitimate ZigBee frames using a Bluetooth radio. Uniquely, BlueBee achieves dual-standard compliance and transparency by selecting only the payload of Bluetooth frames, requiring neither hardware nor firmware changes at the Bluetooth senders and ZigBee receivers. Our implementation on both USRP and commodity devices shows that BlueBee can achieve a more than 99% accuracy and a throughput 10,000x faster than the state-of-the-art CTC reported so far.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Editors	Rasit Eskicioglu
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450354592
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3131672.3131678
State	Published - Nov 6 2017
Event	15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2017 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: Nov 6 2017 → Nov 8 2017

Publication series

Name	SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Volume	2017-January

Other

Other	15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2017
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	11/6/17 → 11/8/17

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the NSF CNS-1444021, NSF CNS-1718456, NSF CNS-1717059, and NSF China 61672196. We sincerely thank our shepherd Abusayeed Saifullah and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and feedback.

Keywords

Bluetooth Low Energy
Cross Technology Communication
Internet of Things
Signal Emulation
ZigBee

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Jiang, W., Li, Z., Yin, Z., Kim, S. M., Liu, R., & He, T. (2017). Bluebee: A 10,000x faster cross-technology communication via PHY emulation. In R. Eskicioglu (Ed.), SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems; Vol. 2017-January). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3131672.3131678

Bluebee : A 10,000x faster cross-technology communication via PHY emulation. / Jiang, Wenchao; Li, Zhijun; Yin, Zhimeng; Kim, Song Min; Liu, Ruofeng; He, Tian.

SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. ed. / Rasit Eskicioglu. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. (SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems; Vol. 2017-January).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Jiang, W, Li, Z, Yin, Z, Kim, SM, Liu, R & He, T 2017, Bluebee: A 10,000x faster cross-technology communication via PHY emulation. in R Eskicioglu (ed.), SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, vol. 2017-January, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2017, Delft, Netherlands, 11/6/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3131672.3131678

Jiang W, Li Z, Yin Z, Kim SM, Liu R, He T. Bluebee: A 10,000x faster cross-technology communication via PHY emulation. In Eskicioglu R, editor, SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2017. (SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems). https://doi.org/10.1145/3131672.3131678

Jiang, Wenchao ; Li, Zhijun ; Yin, Zhimeng ; Kim, Song Min ; Liu, Ruofeng ; He, Tian. / Bluebee : A 10,000x faster cross-technology communication via PHY emulation. SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. editor / Rasit Eskicioglu. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. (SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems).

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