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Chapter 6 - Glossary
Paging device
A paging device is typically attempting to establish a communication link with other
devices. See initiator.
Paging Procedure
With the paging procedure, an actual connection can be established. The paging
procedure typically follows the inquiry procedure. Only the Bluetooth device address
is required to set up a connection. Knowledge about the clock will accelerate the setup
procedure. A unit that establishes a connection will carry out a page procedure and will
automatically be the master of the connection.
Pairable mode
A device that accepts pairing is said to be in pairable mode. The opposite of pairing
mode is non-pairable mode.
Paired device
A device with which a link key has been exchanged (either before connection
establishment was requested or during connecting phase). See also pre-paired device
and unpaired device.
Pairing
The creation and exchange of a link key between two devices. The devices (LocDev
and RemDev) use the link key for future authentication when exchanging information.
Pairing is also called an association between a LocDev and a RemDev based on a
common link key. The link key is also referred to as a bond. Pairing can also establish
a link by the user entering a PIN, which is authenticated by the device providing the
service.
Parked Unit(s)
Devices in a piconet which are synchronized but do not have a MAC addresses.
Phone Services Database
The portion of the BT implementation that stores information about device services,
both local services and remote services.
Physical channel
A synchronized Bluetooth baseband-compliant RF hoping sequence. Physical link A
Baseband level association between two devices established using paging. A physical
link comprises a sequence of transmission slots on a physical channel alternating between
master and slave transmission slots.
Piconet
A collection of devices connected via Bluetooth technology in an ad hoc fashion. A
piconet starts with two connected devices, such as a portable PC and cellular phone,
and may grow to eight connected devices. All Bluetooth devices are peer units and
have identical implementations. However, when establishing a piconet, one unit will
act as a master and the other(s) as slave(s) for the duration of the piconet connection.
All devices hare the same physical channel defined by the master device parameters
(clock and BD_ADDR).