Active Mode

In the Active Mode, the Bluetooth unit actively participates on the channel. The master of the piconet schedules the transmission based on traffic requirements to and from the slaves. It also allows regular transmissions to keep piconet slaves synchronized to the channel. An active slave will listen for packets at predetermined times; if not addressed, the active slave may sleep until the next scheduled master transmission.

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