Demo Abstract: BE-Mesh: Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh Networking

We propose and discuss BE-Mesh-Bluetooth low Energy-Meshed network, a new paradigm for BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) that enables mesh networking among wirelessly interconnected devices, both in a single hop and multi-hop fashion. Starting from the classical Master/Slave paradigm of Bluetooth, we build two new layers based on BLE stack that allow the final user to set-up, in a fast way, the desired network topology while hiding the complexity and low-level details of the BLE stack. We also prototype, as a proof of concept, an open source Android library [1] that implements our communication paradigm and an Android application that allows the exchange of text messages across the mesh network. Last, we demonstrate how BE-Mesh enables Internet access sharing with the whole mesh from a single Internet-connected device.