Bluetooth park state scheduling algorithm for BlueBus, an on-board infotainment system for public buses in Singapore
Kin‐Choong Yow, Jacky Tjoa, Keok Kee Lee · 2010
Singapore, a small island city state, has developed an extensive public transportation system. However, the information and entertainment (infotainment) system within has not received much attention. Several approaches for implementing infotainment system on-board public transportation exist, but they require considerable investment in the hardware. In this paper, we propose a low cost on-board entertainment system using Bluetooth and passengers' own Java ME-enabled mobile phone for delivering the infotainment content, called Since BlueBus uses Bluetooth as the connection medium, it suffers from the Bluetooth limitation of only capable of supporting 7 active connections. Therefore, we developed a scheduling algorithm utilizing Bluetooth Park State capability and priority of services offered by BlueBus. We constructed a computer simulation to measure the performance of the algorithm. The result shows that even with large number of users, our algorithm performs well and incurs a first service delay that is three times lower than the Basic Bluetooth Connection configuration.