Performance evaluation of IEEE802.15.4 6LoWPAN gateway

Author

Khoshdelniat, Reza ; Sinniah, Gopinath Rao ; Bakar, Kamalrulnizam Abu ; Shaharil, Mohd Hafiz Md ; Suryady, Zeldi ; Sarwar, Usman

Author_Institution

MIMOS BERHAD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

2-5 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

258

Abstract

6LoWPAN gateway provides an interface for small size devices to establish IP connection with other Internet devices. One of the standard that 6LoWPAN conforms to is IEEE 802.15.4 which is used for low processing and low power devices. This standard uses frequency spectrum of 2.4 GHz ISM band that overlaps with other standards such as WiFi, Bluetooth and even WiMAX. This causes potential congestion and collision that leads to possible degradation in service quality. The main interference in 6LoWPAN is from WLAN devices. In this paper, we study the deployment of channel allocation by considering the effects of the performance based on interference of deployed environment, size of payload and distance length between sensor node and gateway. These performance tests are executed in the presence and absence of overlapping channel in the environment.

Keywords

WiMax; Zigbee; channel allocation; internetworking; personal area networks; quality of service; wireless LAN; 6LoWPAN gateway; Bluetooth; IEEE802.15.4; IP connection; Internet devices; WiFi; WiMAX; channel allocation; distance length; frequency 2.4 GHz; overlapping channel; performance evaluation; quality of service; sensor node; IEEE 802.11 Standards; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Interference; Logic gates; Payloads; Performance evaluation; Wireless sensor networks; 6LoWPAN; channel allocation; frequency interference; gateway; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (APCC), 2011 17th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Sabah

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0389-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2011.6152814

Filename

6152814