Title :
Software application for analyzing ZigBee network performance in university courses
Author :
Dobrilovic, Dalibor ; Stojanov, Zeljko ; Brtka, Vladimir ; Covic, Zlatko ; Bilinac, Nemanja
Author_Institution :
Tech. Fac. “Mihajlo Pupin”, Univ. of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Serbia
Abstract :
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and related technologies have the important impact nowadays. These technologies have variety of applications, and they are key enabling technologies of IoT (Internet of Things). ZigBee standard is the most common WSN technology. Its importance and expansion, as a widely used technology in many different areas, influence the importance of including ZigBee technology in courses at university. This paper presents the software application and related hardware platform designed to be used by the students to measure and analyze the performances of ZigBee network in design and pre-implementation process. The presented application can be used during the classes of Communication Systems and Computer Network Courses for ZigBee traffic and packet analyses. In addition, this application can be used for researching in the field of wireless sensor networks, ZigBee and other similar popular technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy, IEEE 802.15.4, etc. The supporting platform for this application and experiment for its evaluation are also presented in this paper.
Keywords :
Internet of Things; Zigbee; computer aided instruction; computer networks; computer science education; educational courses; telecommunication computing; telecommunication engineering education; wireless sensor networks; Bluetooth low energy; IEEE 802.15.4; Internet of things; IoT; WSN technology; ZigBee network performance analysis; ZigBee traffic; communication systems; computer network courses; hardware platform; packet analyses; software application; university courses; wireless sensor networks; Computers; Educational institutions; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Protocols; Software; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee; Arduino; Traffic Analyzes Tools; Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN); XBee; ZigBee;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), 2014 IEEE 12th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Subotica
DOI :
10.1109/SISY.2014.6923560
