TY - GEN
T1 - An experimental study of interference impacts on ZigBee-based wireless communication inside buildings
AU - Guo, Wenqi
AU - Healy, William M.
AU - Zhou, Mengchu
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - ZigBee is a wireless technology developed as an open global standard to address the unique needs of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor networks. This standard takes full advantages of the IEEE 802.15.4 physical radio specification and operates in unlicensed bands (e.g., 2.4 GHz) worldwide at different frequencies. As more and more companies make products that use the 2.4 GHz portion of the radio spectrum, network designers have had to deal with increased signals from collocated networks operating over the same frequency range. This paper aims to highlight the issues affecting co-existence of ZigBee systems in the presence of different interferences. We present an experimental study of ZigBee-based wireless communication over a period of time with WiFi, BlueTooth and microwave ovens. Results are presented for several different link configurations. Based on observations of the Packet Error Rate, we propose interference prediction algorithms to explore the impacts of WiFi/microwave oven on ZigBee communications.
AB - ZigBee is a wireless technology developed as an open global standard to address the unique needs of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor networks. This standard takes full advantages of the IEEE 802.15.4 physical radio specification and operates in unlicensed bands (e.g., 2.4 GHz) worldwide at different frequencies. As more and more companies make products that use the 2.4 GHz portion of the radio spectrum, network designers have had to deal with increased signals from collocated networks operating over the same frequency range. This paper aims to highlight the issues affecting co-existence of ZigBee systems in the presence of different interferences. We present an experimental study of ZigBee-based wireless communication over a period of time with WiFi, BlueTooth and microwave ovens. Results are presented for several different link configurations. Based on observations of the Packet Error Rate, we propose interference prediction algorithms to explore the impacts of WiFi/microwave oven on ZigBee communications.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICMA.2010.5589256
DO - 10.1109/ICMA.2010.5589256
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649253619
SN - 9781424451418
T3 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2010
SP - 1982
EP - 1987
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2010
Y2 - 4 August 2010 through 7 August 2010
ER -