Meshing wireless personal area networks: Introducing IEEE 802.15.5

Author

Lee, Myung ; Zhang, Rui ; Zhu, Chunhui ; Park, Tae Rim ; Shin, Chang-Sub ; Jeon, Young-Ae ; Lee, Seong-Hee ; Choi, Sang-Sung ; Liu, Etri Yong ; Park, Sung-Woo

Author_Institution

City Univ. of New York, New York, NY, USA

Volume

48

Issue

1

fYear

2010

fDate

1/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

61

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the IEEE project 802.15.5 that targets providing mesh capabilities to both high-rate and low-rate wireless personal area networks. Low-rate mesh is built on IEEE 802.15.4 MAC, while high-rate mesh utilizes IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. We seek to share our insights and motivations of the approach adopted in the major components of the standard instead of presenting a la carte items drawn in the specification. We hope this article helps readers of the 802.15.5 standard to better understand the rationale and intent of the protocol design.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; personal area networks; IEEE 802.15.3 MAC; IEEE 802.15.4 MAC; IEEE 802.15.5; protocol design; wireless personal area network meshing; Broadcasting; Home automation; Mesh networks; Multicast algorithms; Physical layer; Protocols; Routing; Scalability; Unicast; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2010.5394031

Filename

5394031