TY - GEN
T1 - Interference impacts on ZigBee-based wireless mesh networks for building automation and control
AU - Guo, Wenqi
AU - Healy, William M.
AU - Zhou, Meng Chu
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - ZigBee-Wireless Mesh Networks (ZigBee-WMNs) are recognized as a cost-effective and flexible solution for building automation and control systems (BACs). They have the potential to unify the methods of data communication for sensors, actuators, appliances, and asset-tracking devices in BACs. They offer a means to build a reliable but affordable network backbone to facilitate building control. ZigBee operates primarily in the license-free 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band. This feature makes the technology easily applicable, but also potentially vulnerable to interference by other electronic systems working in the same band such as WLAN-systems of IEEE 802.11 and microwave ovens. This paper reports the experimental results to quantify the impact of different interferers on ZigBee-WMNs. They show that, among different interferers, interference from microwave oven is indeed a major problem. In particular, it results in bigger drop rate and retrial rate compared to the impact of WiFi on WMN. It is expected that the results can provide a quantitative basis for designing reliable ZigBee-WMNs.
AB - ZigBee-Wireless Mesh Networks (ZigBee-WMNs) are recognized as a cost-effective and flexible solution for building automation and control systems (BACs). They have the potential to unify the methods of data communication for sensors, actuators, appliances, and asset-tracking devices in BACs. They offer a means to build a reliable but affordable network backbone to facilitate building control. ZigBee operates primarily in the license-free 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band. This feature makes the technology easily applicable, but also potentially vulnerable to interference by other electronic systems working in the same band such as WLAN-systems of IEEE 802.11 and microwave ovens. This paper reports the experimental results to quantify the impact of different interferers on ZigBee-WMNs. They show that, among different interferers, interference from microwave oven is indeed a major problem. In particular, it results in bigger drop rate and retrial rate compared to the impact of WiFi on WMN. It is expected that the results can provide a quantitative basis for designing reliable ZigBee-WMNs.
KW - Building automation and control systems
KW - Interference
KW - Wireless mesh networks
KW - ZigBee
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084203
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084203
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83755173786
SN - 9781457706523
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 3452
EP - 3457
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2011 - Conference Digest
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2011
Y2 - 9 October 2011 through 12 October 2011
ER -