ZigBee networks performance under WLAN 802.11b/g interference

Author

Yang, Guang ; Yu, Yu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Bergen, Bergen

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

ZigBee is a standard protocol suite for low rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs) and has been widely utilized in various fields. Since both ZigBee and WLAN (802.11 b/g) operate in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed industrial scientific medical (ISM) frequency band, mutual interference is likely to exist and cause signal degradation. In this paper, an interference analysis model is suggested to obtain an estimate of packet error rate (PER) of a ZigBee network. A ZigBee evaluation kit, AVR RZ200, was implemented for measurement of packet loss ratio (PLR). The measured PLR matches the estimated PER, with varied distances and different center frequency offsets of different channels.

Keywords

error statistics; personal area networks; protocols; wireless LAN; AVR RZ200; WLAN 802.11 b/g interference; ZigBee networks; center frequency offsets; frequency 2.4 GHz; low rate wireless personal area networks; mutual interference; packet error rate; packet loss ratio; protocol suite; signal degradation; unlicensed industrial scientific medical frequency band; Degradation; Error analysis; Frequency estimation; Frequency measurement; Interference; Loss measurement; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless personal area networks; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Pervasive Computing, 2009. ISWPC 2009. 4th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2965-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2966-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWPC.2009.4800615

Filename

4800615