Paper Info
Title
On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case.
Abstract
ZigBee is often chosen as a technology to connect things because of characteristics, such as network resilience, interoperability, and low power consumption. In addition, Zigbee Pro, with its Green Power feature, allows low-power networking capable of supporting more than 64 000 devices on a single network, making it an excellent choice to connect things. However, in recent years, we have witnessed the proliferation of smart devices using either 802.11 or ZigBee technologies, which operate in the same frequency band. Proposing and developing techniques that may improve the fair operation and performance of these technologies in coexistence scenarios have been a major concern in industry and academia. In this paper, we propose the use of traffic prioritization for ZigBee nodes in order to improve their performance when coexisting with IEEE 802.11 nodes. We develop an analytical model based on Markov chains, which captures the behavior of channel access mechanisms for both 802.11 nodes and different ZigBee priority class nodes. Based on extensive simulations, we validate the accuracy of the proposed model, and demonstrate how traffic prioritization of ZigBee nodes effectively improves their performance when coexisting with 802.11 nodes. We also demonstrate that this improvement comes at the cost of negligible degradation in the performance of the 802.11 nodes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2553150
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet of things,ZigBee,WiFi,cross technology interference
Psychological resilience,Frequency band,Computer science,Interoperability,Internet of Things,Markov chain,Node (networking),Communication channel,Computer network,NeuRFon,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4
2169-3536
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eugène David Ngangue Ndih1102.72
Soumaya Cherkaoui218740.89