Title :
An efficient short range wireless communication technology for wireless sensor network
Author :
Darif, Anouar ; Saadane, Rachid ; Aboutajdine, Driss
Author_Institution :
Mohammed V-Agdal Univ., Rabat, Morocco
Abstract :
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) have been attracting increasing interest for supporting a new generation of ubiquitous computing systems with great potential for many applications. However, the communication paradigms in WSNs differ from the ones associated to traditional wireless networks, triggering the need for efficient wireless communication technology. Several wireless technologies have emerged ranging from short and medium distance. Bluetooth, ZigBee and Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band (IR-UWB) are three popular short range wireless communications. Due to its various features and advantages (especially low power consumption and low complexity), IR-UWB is a very promising wireless communication technology for WSN. In this paper, we evaluate the main features and advantages of this new technology (IR-UWB) for WSN in terms of transmission time, data coding and power consumption compared to Bluetooth and ZigBee. To analyze and evaluate the main features and advantages of IR-UWB as an efficient short range wireless communication technology for WSN, we used MiXiM platform under OMNet++ simulator.
Keywords :
ubiquitous computing; ultra wideband communication; wireless sensor networks; Bluetooth; IR-UWB; MiXiM platform; OMNet++ simulator; WSN; ZigBee; efficient short range wireless communication technology; impulse radio ultra wide band; ubiquitous computing systems; wireless sensor network; Bluetooth; Decision support systems; Encoding; Power demand; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee; Bluetooth; Data Coding; Energy Consumption; IR-UWB; Transmission Time; WSN; Zigbee;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Technology (CIST), 2014 Third IEEE International Colloquium in
Conference_Location :
Tetouan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5978-5
DOI :
10.1109/CIST.2014.7016653