On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3301b401e0d34a57b921d337e80fcece2025-08-20T01:54:15ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362016-01-0141835184410.1109/ACCESS.2016.25531507451194On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 CaseEugene David Ngangue Ndih0Soumaya Cherkaoui1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6140-770XDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, CanadaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, CanadaZigBee 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.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7451194/Internet of thingsZigBeeWiFicross technology interference |
| spellingShingle | Eugene David Ngangue Ndih Soumaya Cherkaoui On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case IEEE Access Internet of things ZigBee WiFi cross technology interference |
| title | On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case |
| title_full | On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case |
| title_fullStr | On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case |
| title_full_unstemmed | On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case |
| title_short | On Enhancing Technology Coexistence in the IoT Era: ZigBee and 802.11 Case |
| title_sort | on enhancing technology coexistence in the iot era zigbee and 802 11 case |
| topic | Internet of things ZigBee WiFi cross technology interference |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7451194/ |
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