Piconet
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The original piconet was a networking type used on RM Nimbus computers.
These days, a piconet' is an ad-hoc computer network linking a user group of devices using Bluetooth technology protocols to allow one master device to interconnect with up to seven active slave devices (because a three-bit MAC address is used). Up to 255 further slave devices can be inactive, or parked, which the master device can bring into active status at any time.
Piconet range will vary according to the class of the bluetooth device. Data transfer rates vary between about 200 and 2100 kbit/s at the application.
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- http://perth.mit.edu/~ching/pubs/ScatternetAlg.pdf
- Masters and Slaves: Roles in a Bluetooth Piconet
- http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2.01/group3/terminology.html
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