On performance evaluation of BLE 5 in indoor environment: An experimental study

Behnam Badihi; Muhammad Usman Sheikh; Kalle Ruttik; Riku Jäntti

doi:10.1109/PIMRC48278.2020.9217132

On performance evaluation of BLE 5 in indoor environment: An experimental study

Behnam Badihi, Muhammad Usman Sheikh, Kalle Ruttik, Riku Jäntti

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Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized the concept of connectivity from only humans to almost everything capable of being connected. Wireless communication technologies are considered as the vital building blocks of IoT. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) with the highest penetration rate in consumer products has an important role in enabling IoT applications. BLE version 5 has recently been developed to meet the versatile requirements of IoT use cases. In this paper, we investigate the practical performance of BLE 5 in indoor office environment, and study the performance of its novel features. Our evaluation metrics in this study are throughput and Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). In this study, BLE 5 measurements are conducted by using nRF52840 chip from Nordic Semiconductor. The acquired measurement results indicate that new Physical Layers (PHYs) of BLE 5 provide extended coverage and improves the throughput in indoor scenarios. The 2 Mbps uncoded PHY significantly improves the throughput in good RSSI zones. However, the throughput drastically drops in case of zones with moderate to weak RSSI. In particular, the feature of the coded physical layer helps extending the Bluetooth coverage, especially in Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE 31th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2020
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728144900
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC48278.2020.9217132
Publication status	Published - Aug 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - Virtual, Online Duration: 31 Aug 2020 → 3 Sep 2020

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Name	IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications workshops
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2166-9570
ISSN (Electronic)	2166-9589

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Conference	IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
Abbreviated title	PIMRC
City	Virtual, Online
Period	31/08/2020 → 03/09/2020
Other	Virtual conference

Keywords

Bluetooth Low Energy 5 (BLE 5)
Experimental evaluation
Indoor environment
Internet of Things (IoT)
Short range radio technology

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Badihi, B., Sheikh, M. U., Ruttik, K., & Jäntti, R. (2020). On performance evaluation of BLE 5 in indoor environment: An experimental study. In Proceedings of the IEEE 31th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2020 [9217132] ( IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications workshops). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC48278.2020.9217132

Badihi, Behnam ; Sheikh, Muhammad Usman ; Ruttik, Kalle ; Jäntti, Riku. / On performance evaluation of BLE 5 in indoor environment : An experimental study. Proceedings of the IEEE 31th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2020. IEEE, 2020. ( IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications workshops).

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Badihi, B, Sheikh, MU , Ruttik, K & Jäntti, R 2020, On performance evaluation of BLE 5 in indoor environment: An experimental study. in Proceedings of the IEEE 31th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2020., 9217132, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications workshops, IEEE, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Virtual, Online, 31/08/2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC48278.2020.9217132

On performance evaluation of BLE 5 in indoor environment : An experimental study. / Badihi, Behnam; Sheikh, Muhammad Usman ; Ruttik, Kalle ; Jäntti, Riku.

Proceedings of the IEEE 31th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2020. IEEE, 2020. 9217132 ( IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications workshops).

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Badihi B, Sheikh MU , Ruttik K , Jäntti R. On performance evaluation of BLE 5 in indoor environment: An experimental study. In Proceedings of the IEEE 31th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2020. IEEE. 2020. 9217132. ( IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications workshops). https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC48278.2020.9217132

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