Research Article
Temporary Interconnection of ZigBee Personal Area Network (PAN)
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451010, author={Sewook Jung and Alexander Chang and Mario Gerla}, title={Temporary Interconnection of ZigBee Personal Area Network (PAN)}, proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2008}, month={2}, keywords={Ad hoc networks Bridges Energy consumption Humans Peer to peer computing Performance evaluation Personal area networks Sensor phenomena and characterization Wireless sensor networks ZigBee}, doi={10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451010} }- Sewook Jung
Alexander Chang
Mario Gerla
Year: 2008
Temporary Interconnection of ZigBee Personal Area Network (PAN)
MOBIQUITOUS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451010
Abstract
ZigBee is popular for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) devices because of its low power consumption, built-in security method and ratified specifications. With these features, it is also suitable to be used with medical sensor devices. Medical sensors in a human body self organize a ZigBee Personal Area Network (PAN). These PANs are interconnected and form a HealthNet. For the interconnection, a ZigBee PAN detects existence of another PAN with beacon detection or active channel scan. Different ZigBee interconnection schemes are used after detection. PAN bridge method uses special bridge node that works for different PANs with time division method. PAN merge method temporarily changes PAN coordinator’s role as bridge node and merges two PANs. Peer-to-peer network temporarily share all resources when two PANs are met, but all PANs have to use the same channel and operate as an ad-hoc network. In this paper, we perform extensive evaluations using NS-2 simulations to compare PAN interconnection methods. Results show that the PAN bridge is the most useful method because it is not affected by router/node ratio and is applicable to different channel usages.
