Design rules for lightweight short-range wireless networks [articol]

Abstract

The proliferation of mobile computing devices including laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wearable computers has created an enormous demand for wireless personal area networks (WPANs). WPANs originally enabled convenient interconnection of devices around an individual person or computer. From this starting-point, a broad variety of new wireless appliances has been developed, allowing proximal devices to share information and resources. Major fields of application for these wireless short-range networks are industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM), but also consumer electronics and smart home appliances. Many of these applications are very cost-sensitive, however depend on a high degree of interoperability thanks to standardization. This contribution deals with concrete design guidelines to combine these two challenges for IEEE802.15.4 [3] and ZigBee [5] networks.