EAGER: Bluetooth Open-Source Stack (BOSS) - A Flexible and Extensible Bluetooth Research Platform

蓝牙技术不断发展和扩展，利用其与其他无线技术相比所具有的理想属性和特性。随着蓝牙规范的最新更新（4.1版），蓝牙设备有望成为大肆宣传的物联网市场的主要参与者。大量的研究团体，利用这项技术，将需要修改蓝牙协议的较低层。由于缺乏蓝牙堆栈的开源实现，社区的努力将在现实场景下验证和验证他们的研究。这个雄心勃勃的项目旨在设计、开发和传播一个灵活的、可扩展的开源蓝牙平台（BOSS），这将为无线和移动计算社区带来新的研究机会。该平台将通过创建社区维护的开放访问存储库，实现跨蓝牙堆栈所有层的方案、服务和应用程序的开发和评估。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：1)开发一个完整的蓝牙开源平台，通过在现有的开源蓝牙硬件平台上实现协议栈的底层作为固件，并扩展现有的开源堆栈的上层；2)创建和维护一个开放访问的存储库，社区将在生成新的开源模块方面发挥关键作用。该项目将为网络社区提供一套工具集，以促进新的蓝牙协议、应用程序和服务的开发和评估。这些新的协议和服务可以用来为未来的蓝牙标准做出贡献。BOSS项目将对无线网络和移动计算研究的多个领域产生影响，如协议设计、安全、无线网络共存、多接口智能设备等。该项目将使学生接触到无线网络、移动计算和计算机体系结构方面的前沿研究。另外，项目？该研究结果将用于以高中学生为对象的讲座中，以无线技术和物联网为例，对蓝牙技术及其应用进行教育。这项工作的结果将通过在会议上的演讲、期刊出版物和报告来传播。将创建一个开放访问的存储库，其中包括本项目中所有设计和开发的工具以及源代码和文档，并通过一个专门的网站在线提供给社区。此外，将鼓励研究社区将他们在BOSS上的修改和扩展上传到存储库。

Bluetooth technology continues to evolve and expand, taking advantage of the desirable attributes and features it possesses in comparison to other wireless technologies. With the latest update to the Bluetooth specification (version 4.1), Bluetooth devices are expected to become major players in the much-hyped Internet of Things market. A large body of the research community, utilizing this technology, will require modifications to the lower layers of the Bluetooth protocol. Given the lack of an open-source implementation of Bluetooth stack, the community efforts will be limited in validating and verifying their research under realistic scenarios. This ambitious project aims to design, develop, and disseminate a flexible and extensible open-source Bluetooth platform (BOSS) that will enable new research opportunities for the wireless and mobile computing community. The platform will enable development and evaluation of schemes, services, and applications across all layers of the Bluetooth stack, through the creation of a community-maintained, open-access repository. These goals will be accomplished by: 1) developing a complete Bluetooth open-source platform, by implementing lower layers of the protocol stack as firmware on an existing open-source Bluetooth hardware platform, and extending existing open source upper layers of the stack; and 2) creating and maintaining an open-access repository, where the community will play a key role in generating novel open-source modules.This project will empower the network community with a tool-set facilitating the development and evaluation of new Bluetooth protocols, applications and services. These new protocols and services could be used to contribute to future Bluetooth standards. BOSS project will have an impact on multiple areas in wireless networks and mobile computing research, such as protocol design, security, wireless network coexistence, and multi-interface smart devices, among others. The project will expose students to cutting-edge research in wireless networks, mobile computing, and computer architecture. In addition, the project?s outcome will be utilized in lectures targeting high school students to educate them about Bluetooth technology and its application as an example of wireless technology as well as Internet of Things. Results from this work will be disseminated through presentations at conferences, journal publications, and reports. An open-access repository, which includes all the designed and developed tools within this project as well as source code and documentations, will be created and made available on-line to the community through a dedicated website. In addition, the research community will be encouraged to upload their modifications and extensions on BOSS to the repository.