InterPAN Communication using ZigBee

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Inter-PAN Communication using ZigBee

• Gihyuk Her
• Networking Lab
• Kyung Hee Univ.

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Outlines

• Introduction
• Motivation
• Assumptions
• Proposal
• Conclusion
• Future works

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Introduction (1/2)
Bluetooth? UWB? ZigBee?

• Attractive features of ZigBee
• Low rate
• Low power
• Short range
• Self-organization

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Introduction (2/2)

• ZigBee Stack Architecture
• Application layer
• Network Layer Functionalities
• Routing
• Network Management
• IEEE 802.15.4 as MAC

ltZigBee Stack Architecturegt
ZigBee Alliance, ZigBee Specification, Feb 8,
2007
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Motivation

• ZigBee is suitable for ubiquitous network
  environment as
• Low Power
• Low Rate
• (Ex. Home network, u-healthcare and silver-care)
• However, ZigBee technology does not deal with the
  following issues
• PAN mobility
• Interoperability with other ZigBee networks
• Mobility and Interoperability is quite important
  considering application characteristics of
  ubiquitous networks (e.g. A person can move from
  one network to another)

K. Kim, Ed., Dynamic MANET On-demand for 6LoWPAN
(DYMO-low) Routing, draft-montenegro-6lowpan-dym
o-low-routing-02, March 2007
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Assumptions

• Coordinator Performs the role of a network
  manager
• PANs have mobility

Coordinator
ZigBee Node
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Proposal(1/2)

• We have introduced bridge through which PANs will
  be able to communicate with each other

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Proposal (2/2)

• Bridge in the source PAN forwards data packet to
  Bridge located in the destination PAN

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C
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Conclusion Future works

• Conclusion
• Through Bridges, inter PAN communication is
  possible
• Through Bridges, PANs could be connected to other
  infrastructure based networks (e.g. WiBro or
  WLAN)
• Future works
• Our proposed scheme will be simulated and/or
  implemented on a testbed

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Reference

• ZigBee Alliance, ZigBee Specification, Feb 8,
  2007
• K. Kim, Ed., Dynamic MANET On-demand for 6LoWPAN
  (DYMO-low) Routing, draft-montenegro-6lowpan-dymo
  -low-routing-02, March 2007
• I. Chakeres, C.Perkins, Dynamic MANET On-demand
  (DYMO) Routing, draft-ietf-manet-dymo-09, May
  2007
• K. Kim, S. Daniel Park, G. Montenegro, S. Yoo, N.
  Kushalnagar, "6LoWPAN Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance
  Vector Routing (LOAD)", draft-daniel-6lowpan-load-
  adhoc-routing-02, March 2006

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• THANK YOU!