Simulation on Zigbee Wirel

ess Network Performance

9317509 楊慧友
9317537 張民憲
9317543 蕭向彥
9317566 李志劭

2005.06.12
 Outline

• Introduction

• Two previously proposed measurement

• Design of analysis

• Reference & related work

 Introduction

• Evaluate Zigbee(802.15.4) technology

▫ Low energy consume
▫ Low data rate

• Using simulator to analyze performance of Zi

gbee.
 Two previous work

• Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.15.

4 MAC for Low-Rate Low-Power Wireless Net
works

• Analysis of the performance of IEEE 802.15.

4 for medical sensor body area networking
 Performance Evaluation of the IEEE
802.15.4 MAC for Low-Rate Low-Power
Wireless Networks
• NS-2 network simulator + CMU wireless extension
• Radio characteristics:

• 7 × 7 grid with 4m between nodes, node at center is

coordinator.
• Simulation are run independently.
• The result is averaged under 10 different seeds.
• Sources generate packets at constant average rate
with 50% randomization in inter-packet interval.
 Performance Evaluation of the IEEE
802.15.4 MAC for Low-Rate Low-Power
Wireless Networks
• CSMA-CA in CAP
▫ Throughput for different numbers of sources
▫ Delivery ration for different numbers of sources

• Duty Cycle
▫ Delay as a function of duty cycle
▫ Energy consumption of source device as a function of du
ty cycle
 Performance Evaluation of the IEEE
802.15.4 MAC for Low-Rate Low-Power
Wireless Networks
• Guaranteed Time Slots: performance under
different background traffic
▫ latency
▫ Energy
▫ Delivery ratio

• Synchronization
▫ Energy cost with tracking and non-tracking
 Analysis of the performance of IEEE
802.15.4 for medical sensor body area
networking

• The star network consisted of the coordinato

r and 10 body implanted sensors
• Transceiver parameters (chipcon CC2420)

• The CSMA/CA performance will be shown for

much larger networks.
 Analysis of the performance of IEEE
802.15.4 for medical sensor body area
networking

• CSMA-CA Effect
▫ In beacon or non-beacon networks
▫ Average number of back-off periods for number of senso
rs
▫ Average number of back-off periods for upload / downlo
ad rate per hour

• GTS Effect
▫ GTS timeslot on sensor lifetime.
 Analysis of the performance of IEEE
802.15.4 for medical sensor body area
networking

• Node lifetime in beacon networks

▫ In both beacon and non-beacon networks
▫ Crystal tolerance on symmetric sensor lifetime with
communication rate 1/hr.
▫ Crystal tolerance on asymmetric sensor lifetime with
fixed packet size of 1000 bits and 1/hr download rate.
 Design of analysis

• Measurement
▫ BER ( Bit Error Rate )
• Rate of correct transmission
▫ Latency
• Delay time
▫ Retransmission times
 Design of analysis

• Scope Variable
▫ Single-hop
▫ Multi-hop
• Environment variable
▫ Indoor
▫ Outdoor
• Other variable
▫ Node number
▫ Packet size
▫ Transmission channel
 Reference

• G. Lu et al., “Performance evaluation of the

IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for low-rate low-power
wireless networks,” in IEEE International
Conference on Performance, Computing, and
Communications (IPCCC), 2004.

• N. Timmons and W. Scanlon, “Analysis of the

performance of IEEE 802.15.4 for medical
sensor body area networking,” IEEE Sensor
and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
Conference (SECON), 2004.
 Reference
• Jon Adams, “Meet the ZigBee Standard”, 2004 on htt
p://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/0603/14/.
• Andreas Andersson, and Mattias Thoren, “ZIGBEE, A
SUITABLE BASE FOR EMBEDDED WIRELESS DEVELO
PMENT?”, 2005 Chalmers technology report.
• Ed Callaway, P. Gorday, L. Hester, J.A. Gutierrez, M.
Neave, B. Heile, V. Bahl, "Home networking with IEE
E 802.15.4: A developing standard for low-rate wirel
ess personal area networks," IEEE Communication M
agazine, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 70-77, August 2002.
• William C. Craig, “Zigbee: “Wireless Control That Si
mply Works”, 2004 on www.zigbee.org.
• Becta TeckNews February 2005
 Related work

• George Karayannis slides, “Emerging Wirele

ss Standards Understanding the Role of IEEE
802.15.4 & ZigBee in AMR & Submetering”,
2003 on www.zigbee.org.