Research Article
NAT-ZigBee: NAT-Based Address Assignment for Scalable ZigBee Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_22, author={Yuan-Yao Shih and Yu-Kai Huang and Ai-Chun Pang and Pang-Feng Liu and Wei-Ni Chu}, title={NAT-ZigBee: NAT-Based Address Assignment for Scalable ZigBee Networks}, proceedings={Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. 7th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2010, and Dedicated Short Range Communications Workshop, DSRC 2010, Houston, TX, USA, November 17-19, 2010, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_22} }- Yuan-Yao Shih
Yu-Kai Huang
Ai-Chun Pang
Pang-Feng Liu
Wei-Ni Chu
Year: 2012
NAT-ZigBee: NAT-Based Address Assignment for Scalable ZigBee Networks
QSHINE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_22
Abstract
ZigBee has been considered as one of the promising communication protocols for low-rate wireless personal area networks. Among the well-known ZigBee topologies, ZigBee cluster-tree is especially suitable for wireless sensor applications with its supporting of power-saving operation and light-weight routing. Due to the restriction of configuration parameters, some devices could be prohibited to join a ZigBee cluster-tree network and become . The orphan problem leads to the difficulty in smoothly increasing the network coverage or device density. In this paper, we propose an NAT-based address assignment framework for a scalable ZigBee network which locally resolves the orphan problem without the reconfiguration of a whole network, while the light-weight ZigBee tree routing is maintained. The experimental results show that the proposed framework can significantly reduce the number of orphan devices compared to the original ZigBee address assignment scheme.
