Boosting the Bitrate of Cross-Technology Communication on Commodity IoT Devices

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

doi:10.1109/TNET.2019.2913980

Boosting the Bitrate of Cross-Technology Communication on Commodity IoT Devices

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

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

The cross-technology communication (CTC) is a promising technique proposed recently to bridge heterogeneous wireless technologies in the ISM bands. Existing solutions use only the coarse-grained packet-level information for CTC modulation, suffering from a low throughput (e.g., 10 b/s). Our approach, called BlueBee, explores the dense PHY-layer information for CTC by emulating legitimate ZigBee frames with the Bluetooth radio. Uniquely, BlueBee achieves dual-standard compliance and transparency for its only modifying the payload of Bluetooth frames, requiring neither hardware nor firmware changes at either the Bluetooth sender or the ZigBee receiver. Our implementation on both USRP and commodity devices shows that BlueBee can achieve standard ZigBee bit rate of 250 kb/s at more than 99% accuracy, which is over 10000 \times faster than the state-of-the-art packet-level CTC technologies.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	8732397
Pages (from-to)	1069-1083
Number of pages	15
Journal	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Volume	27
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2019.2913980
State	Published - Jun 2019

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Manuscript received April 26, 2018; revised November 18, 2018; accepted March 27, 2019; approved by IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Editor T. Hou. Date of publication June 6, 2019; date of current version June 14, 2019. This work was supported in part by the NSF under Grant CNS-1525235, Grant CNS-1718456, Grant CNS-1717059, and NSF China under Grant 61672196. A conference paper [15] containing preliminary results of this paper appeared in ACM Sensys 2017. (Corresponding authors: Tian He; Zhijun Li.) W. Jiang, Z. Yin, R. Liu, and T. He are with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).

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Cross-technology communication
Internet of Things
ZigBee
bluetooth low energy
signal emulation

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