A group of piconets with overlapping coverage areas. Connections exist between them.
A network that is formed by several interconnected Bluetooth piconets. Also see Bluetooth and piconet.
A number of Bluetooth Piconets, joined together by gateway devices selected within each Piconet. A gateway device may be either a Master or a Slave.
Two or more independent, non-synchronized piconets.
A group of independent and non-synchronized piconets that share at least one common Bluetooth device. Bluetooth devices must have point-to-multipoint capability to engage in scatternet communication. There may be a maximum of 10 fully loaded piconets in a scatternet.
A scatternet is set of piconets connected through sharing devices.