On the performance of ZigBee Pro and ZigBee IP in IEEE 802.15.4 networks

Author

Franceschinis, M. ; Pastrone, Claudio ; Spirito, Maurizio A. ; Borean, Claudio

Author_Institution

Pervasive Technol. (PerT) Area, Ist. Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Turin, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

88

Abstract

The wide spread of smart embedded devices and the trend towards their inclusion in a unique Internet of Things are making urgent their full integration within the TCP/IP protocol stack. This paper considers ZigBee, a short-range radio communication standard for embedded devices, and compares two alternative protocol stacks, namely ZigBee Pro and ZigBee IP, developed for the integration of ZigBee in the so called Internet of Things. The performance evaluation is founded on experimental results achieved using two test-beds built to this purpose and is based on service reliability and latency as metrics.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet of Things; Zigbee; access protocols; telecommunication network reliability; IEEE 802.15.4 networks; Internet of Things; TCP-IP protocol stack; ZigBee IP; ZigBee Pro; alternative protocol stacks; performance evaluation; service latency; service reliability; short-range radio communication standard; smart embedded devices; 6LoWPAN; CoAP; HTTP; IEEE 802.15.4; Internet of Things; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

2160-4886

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiMOB.2013.6673344

Filename

6673344