A SystemC Bluetooth network simulator

As the wireless networks utilization grows up and the technology becomes more powerful, the complexity of the possible applications increases. With the current hardware potentiality, it's unavoidable to make use of simulation tools to develop, improve and optimize the designed networks. Many network simulators are available, but they mainly concentrate on the protocol aspects of the design, i.e. they work on a very high level of abstraction. Rather, in many applications it may be useful, important or even critical to observe and manage at the same time high-level and low-level parameters like the power in the channel, the packet loss, or more specific network configuration details. In this paper we present a Bluetooth network simulator that let the user to work both on application level and on link management level. The Bluetooth simulator has been implemented using SystemC and it has been developed with the aim of modeling a real microcontroller-based device.