Research Article
ZigBee-Assisted WiFi Transmission for Multi-interface Mobile Devices
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30973-1_26, author={Hua Qin and Yanfei Wang and Wensheng Zhang}, title={ZigBee-Assisted WiFi Transmission for Multi-interface Mobile Devices}, proceedings={Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 8th International ICST Conference, MobiQuitous 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 6-9, 2011, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={ZigBee WiFi IEEE 802.11 throughput}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30973-1_26} }- Hua Qin
Yanfei Wang
Wensheng Zhang
Year: 2012
ZigBee-Assisted WiFi Transmission for Multi-interface Mobile Devices
MOBIQUITOUS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30973-1_26
Abstract
It has been common for a mobile device to have WiFi and Bluetooth interfaces. As the ZigBee technology becomes more mature, it will not be surprising to see the ZigBee interface commonly embedded in mobile devices together with WiFi and other interfaces in the near future. To leverage the ZigBee interface for improving the communication performance of a mobile device, we propose a ZigBee-assisted WiFi transmission system where the ZigBee is used to coordinate the communication activities of WiFi to reduce contention and collision. A prototype of the proposed system and a detailed simulator of it have been implemented; extensive experiments and simulations have been conducted. The results show that, the proposed system can achieve significantly higher throughput and energy efficiency than the IEEE 802.11 protocol.