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Exposing Bluetooth lower layers for IoT communication

Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT), penetrating through our daily life, is looking to minimize the overhead in all of its modules. Bluetooth shows up as an efficient candidate to handle the communication part. In this work, we propose BOSS: a Bluetooth Open Source Stack, which grants developers access to low level Bluetooth layers. Bluetooth firmware is currently a black box controlled by manufacturers without no possible was to get access to its modules, let alone modifying them like other IEEE standards, e.g., Wi-Fi. This negates the efficient nature IoT systems should have. We design and implement BOSS to adhere with Bluetooth standards while providing the community with a reliable open source version of the Bluetooth stack. In this work, we present the challenges to realize the unique Bluetooth features and how to address them, in addition to implementing two basic features, i.e., peer location and packet transmission.