Bluetooth 1.1: Connect Without Cables (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Charles F. Sturman (Author)

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Product Description

In-depth guide to the new Bluetooth 1.1 Specification and its dramatic improvements in interoperability and reliability. Includes revised coverage of Bluetooth security and power conservation.

From the Back Cover

• The authoritative, in-depth guide to the new Bluetooth 1.1 specification
• Bluetooth 1.1's dramatic improvements in interoperability and reliability
• Includes thoroughly revised coverage of Bluetooth security and power conservation
• New Bluetooth profiles—including the long-awaited Personal Area Networking profile!

The first complete guide to the new Bluetooth 1.1 wireless specification!

The Bluetooth specification has been updated to deliver dramatic improvements in both reliability and interoperability. Bluetooth 1.1: Connect Without Cables, Second Edition updates the industry's #1 Bluetooth guide to cover these critical new enhancements—and to offer detailed guidance on every aspect of Bluetooth 1.1 development.

Bluetooth SIG committee members Jennifer Bray and Charles Sturman place Bluetooth 1.1 in context, covering markets, applications, complementary technologies, key development issues, and explaining every goal of the new release. They review the components of a Bluetooth system, explain how Bluetooth connections work, introduce essential concepts such as piconets and scatternets, and cover the Bluetooth protocol stack in detail from top to bottom.

• Interoperability between 1.0b and 1.1
• Details of 1.1 improvements with explanations of the reasons behind each change
• Important changes to Bluetooth low-power modes, encryption, and authentication
• Bridging Ethernet and Bluetooth with Bluetooth Network Encapsulation Protocol
• How to use Universal Plug and Play with the Bluetooth protocol stack
• Profiles which will bring new products including: Human Interface Devices, Hands-Free Phone usage, Basic Printing, Basic Imaging, and Hard Copy Cable Replacement
• Technologies used by Bluetooth: OBEX, WAP, GSM TS07.10, UPnP, Q.931, and UUIDs
• Comparison of related technologies: DECT, IrDA, Home RF, HiperLAN, and 802.11

Whether you're experienced with V.1.0 or working with Bluetooth for the first time, Bluetooth 1.1: Connect Without Cables, Second Edition is your definitive resource for building interoperable, reliable wireless applications—right now!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition (December 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130661066
• ISBN-13: 978-0130661067
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #813,845 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes a difficult subject as clear as it can be, March 8, 2002

By	Chris Reeve "pln2bz" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bluetooth is a really long spec (1000 pages) and the decentralized, spontaneous nature of the networks that it spawns seem very flexible and robust, but at the same time fairly complicated. I come from a pci background and although I'm sure that there is more complicated stuff out there, I would venture to say that bluetooth is one of the more complicated networking spec's you can attempt to learn. However, if the bluetooth market is going to explode to something like $3bn by 2007, then thousands of engineers will have to understand the spec well enough to be able to design with it.

There are definitely times during this book (I'm 25% through it now) where I really have no idea what these guys are talking about even after re-reading the paragraph several times. More often than not, it's best to just make a note of it in the margin and come back to it later since the text cross-references and repeats itself comfortably often. But there are also lots of moments when I realize that I wouldn't have a clue if I was trying to understand this directly from the spec.

These two authors do a very good job of explaining why things are the way they are. Their writing skills manage to somehow avoid causing confusion and I can understand their state machines and communication diagrams within a few seconds of staring at them. I've found that I can cruise through 30 pages per day comfortably and 60 pages if I put more effort into ignoring the outside world. It's surprisingly easy to motivate myself to pick up the book to start a new chapter because the chapters are laid out such that you are left wondering how the rest of the system fits together. The explanations and acronyms for the most part stick with you as you go through the material. I've found lots of instances where it seems like proof-reading was done with a spell-checker. There are also a couple of numerical mistakes, but nothing that causes confusion.

One tip I've found that helps a lot with going through material like this is to have an application in mind and mentally design for it as you read through the book.

I highly recommend this as a text for understanding bluetooth, but be prepared to digest it over the course of a two-week vacation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For its purpose, it is a very good book., April 27, 2004

By A Customer

I have read some of the other reviews and they seem to complain about the emphasis of this book on the technical details of Bluetooth. It is true that that is the case and for its purpose (i.e. making the Bluetooth specification understandable - some people do want to read about that!!!!) it is a wonderful book.

For anyone who has taken a look at the Bluetooth spec, it is a daunting task to read or understand it and this book breaks it down into easy to understand sizeable chunks. It is written by experts in the field and it consistently makes use of diagrams, pictures and bullet points to explain its concepts which makes reading it enjoyable.

For readers only interested in only one aspect/layer of Bluetooth, the book can act as a good introduction to that aspect and will at the same time demonstrate how that aspect fits into the big picture. The books has a chapter on almost each and every aspect of Bluetooth from technical details to marketting and branding.

I have seen many books on how to develop Bluetooth applications and this is not one of them. That is not its purpose! For its purpose, it is THE BEST book i've seen!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, August 26, 2002

By	Jerry Frenz (UK) - See all my reviews

I was very disappointed with this book. It seems very hurried and rushed, where the authors chop and change in the text. There seems to be a lot of discussion for the baseband stuff, but all the application stuff was poor. I wanted a book that told me how to create my Bluetooh applications and this one didn't.

Anyone?