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Bluetooth Data Exchange Between Android Phones Without Pairing

2015/07/02 by Yakov Shafranovich, Shafranovich, Yakov
Computer Science · #Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies #Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks #cs.NI

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.00650

7 pages, 6 figures

openalex publication_date 2015/07/02 · arxiv created 2016/04/11 · arxiv updated 2016/04/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this paper we describe a novel method of exchanging data between Bluetooth smartphones on the Android platform without requiring pairing between devices. We discuss our approach of encoding and decoding data inside the UUIDs used by the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol (SDP). Future research remains to be done on the latency, bandwidth and compatibility of this approach, as well as the possibility of utilizing other protocols in conjunction with this method.

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