Bluetooth Revealed: The Insider's Guide to an Open Specification for Global Wireless Communications

The Bluetooth bestseller—completely updated for Bluetooth 1.1!

• Up-to-the-minute Bluetooth 1.1 information and guidance from key contributors to the specification!
• New interoperability solutions, profiles, and usage models
• In-depth coverage of Bluetooth's new qualification program
• Bluetooth's relationship with 802.11, 802.15, HomeRF, and IrDA
• Insider's preview of Bluetooth's next steps and applications

Bluetooth Revealed, Second Edition offers an in-depth, insider's view of the new Bluetooth 1.1 standard and its major interoperability improvements-crucial information and guidance professionals need to start implementing Bluetooth solutions now. Written by key contributors to the specification, it presents Bluetooth 1.1 in unprecedented depth: its goals, scope, structure, interrelationships, and applications. Fully updated throughout, it contains entirely new chapters on the Bluetooth qualification process, and on Bluetooth's relationship with 802.11 and 802.15 WLANs and other emerging wireless technologies. Coverage includes:

• Bluetooth 1.1: its goals, key concepts, and the design challenges that have shaped it
• The Bluetooth protocol stack: radio and baseband layers, host controller interface, software layer, Link Manager, LLCAP, RFCOMM, and Service Discovery Protocol
• All leading Bluetooth usage models, including brand new automotive, multimedia, and "personal area networking" applications
• In-depth coverage of Bluetooth profiles—including profiles introduced after Bluetooth 1.0
• Practical techniques for delivering IrDA interoperability
• An up-to-the-minute snapshot of the Bluetooth marketplace: new tools and product offerings
• Future Bluetooth versions and applications: An insider's preview

Bluetooth 1.1 overcomes key obstacles to Bluetooth development, dramatically improving interoperability and extending Bluetooth into entirely new application domains. With Bluetooth Revealed, Second Edition, developers and technical managers have a complete blueprint for leveraging the growing power of Bluetooth—starting today.