Scalable Performance Testing of a ZigBee Protocol for High Data Rate Application

Abstract

ZigBee is a wireless personal area network (WPAN). It works on the standard IEEE 802.15.4. This standard works on the maximum frequency 2.4GHz. While works on this standard ZigBee get a maximum data rate of 250kbps. So usually ZigBee network is used for low data rate application. But with the development of tiny cameras that can be possible to place inside sensor nodes there comes need for sending data that require high data rate like images, videos etc. So in order to increase data rate and thereby increasing global throughput ZigBee uses multipath routing protocols. Hybrid ZMR is one of such multipath routing protocol. It finds multiple paths based on proactive tree routing and reactive AODV routing. While designing an efficient routing protocol scalability is an important factor. This paper checks the scalability of hybrid ZMR protocol and comparing it's scalability with traditional ZigBee tree routing protocol.