
Chapter 10
the kinds of devices that people use with Bluetooth remain in close physical proximity with
the targets of their communications. Imagine the common case of a wireless mouse using
Bluetooth to communicate with the PC that it is controlling: one can easily move that mouse
and use it with another PC, but no one would expect (or want) that mouse to continue to
control the original PC from its new home.
Bluetooth does not incorporate the concept of a cell surrounding a centralized base station.
Thus, the very concept of roaming as we have defined, is foreign to Bluetooth. This obser-
vation is not to say that devices will not have both Bluetooth ...