Research Article
Inter-technology Application Data Exchange Based on Advertisement Packets
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-032-38705-9_4, author={Mariam Issa and Paul Couderc and Jean-Marie Bonnin}, title={Inter-technology Application Data Exchange Based on Advertisement Packets}, proceedings={Intelligent Transport Systems. 9th EAI International Conference, INTSYS 2025, Marietta, GA, USA, December 10, 2025, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={INTSYS}, year={2026}, month={10}, keywords={Ephemeral Interaction Local Communication Dataspaces Association-less Communication Wi-Fi Beacon Stuffing BLE Advertisements}, doi={10.1007/978-3-032-38705-9_4} }- Mariam Issa
Paul Couderc
Jean-Marie Bonnin
Year: 2026
Inter-technology Application Data Exchange Based on Advertisement Packets
INTSYS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-38705-9_4
Abstract
Ephemeral, spontaneous interactions like proximity-based alerts and short-lived data exchanges, are becoming central to mobile and IoT applications. Traditional wireless systems, designed for persistent connections, are often too heavy for these use cases. We present in this paper a unified framework that enables opportunistic, connectionless data exchange across BLE and Wi-Fi advertisements. Our system, deployed on ESP32 hardware, serves as a proof-of-concept and as a performance study for a middleware that abstracts low-level protocol details. It requires no firmware modification and supports local and context-aware communication. We provide an in-depth experimental study highlighting the power consumption, coexistence constraints, and design trade-offs of concurrent BLE and Wi-Fi beaconing. Our results demonstrate the framework’s potential for enabling seamless, standard-compliant inter-technology communication tailored to ephemeral applications.