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In typical application scenarios of home automation and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), the sensors that monitor relatively unpredictable and rare events should coexist with other sensors that continuously communicate health or environmental parameter measurements. The former usually work in connectionless mode, acting as advertisers, while the latter need a persistent connection, acting as slave nodes. The coexistence of connectionless and connection-oriented networks, that share the same central node, can be required to reduce the number of handling devices, thus keeping the network complexity low and limiting the packet\u2019s traffic congestion. In this paper, the medium access management, operated by the central node, has been modeled, focusing on the scheduling procedure in both connectionless and connection-oriented communication. The models have been merged to provide a tool supporting the configuration design of BLE devices, during the network design phase that precedes the real implementation. The results highlight the suitability of the proposed tool: the ability to set the device parameters to allow us to keep a practical discovery latency for event-driven sensors and avoid undesired overlaps between scheduled scanning and connection phases due to bad management performed by the central node.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17040792","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,4,7]],"date-time":"2017-04-07T10:49:53Z","timestamp":1491562193000},"page":"792","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Analysis and Tools for Improved Management of Connectionless and Connection-Oriented BLE Devices Coexistence"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0029-5123","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonio","family":"Del Campo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell\u2019Informazione, Universit\u00e0 Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona 60131, Italy"}]},{"given":"Lorenzo","family":"Cintioni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell\u2019Informazione, Universit\u00e0 Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona 60131, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7323-4030","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Susanna","family":"Spinsante","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell\u2019Informazione, Universit\u00e0 Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona 60131, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6852-8483","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ennio","family":"Gambi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell\u2019Informazione, Universit\u00e0 Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona 60131, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2010). 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