Piconet

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The original Piconet was a USB-style expansion port on RM Nimbus computers. See Research Machines.

These days, a piconet is an ad-hoc computer network 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.

[edit] See also

• Scatternet
• Personal area network (PAN)

[edit] External links

• http://perth.mit.edu/~ching/pubs/ScatternetAlg.pdf
• Masters and Slaves: Roles in a Bluetooth Piconet