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Comprehensive Performance Analysis of ZigBee Technology Based on Real Measurements

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Although the ZigBee technology is massively deployed the performance question still remains unanswered. There is a lack of serious performance evaluations and thus this paper provides a comprehensive and unbiased study of the ZigBee PRO technology. An extensive real measurement was conducted to accomplish this task. We found out a big performance gap among ZigBee implementations even though they are compliant with the ZigBee standard. The presented results and analysis could be beneficial for many wireless sensor network developers.

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  1. Memsic, Iris, Available: http://www.memsic.com/.

  2. Atmel Bitcloud ZigBee PRO, Available: http://www.atmel.com.

  3. Chanalyzer: Available: http://www.metageek.net/.

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    Measurement chain

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  4. Daintree Networks, SNA 2400E, Available: http://www.daintree.net/.

  5. These timestamps are calculated in [7] based on assumptions that the CSMA/CA algorithm never finds the channel busy and the default random back-off exponent for the CSMA/CA data frame is 3.

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    Theoretical versus measured throughput, one sender node

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Research described in this paper was prepared within the framework of No.FRTI2/571 grant project of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. Holder of Brno PhD Talent Financial Aid - Sponsored by Brno City Municipality.

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    Lubomir Mraz, Vladimir Cervenka, Dan Komosny & Milan Simek

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Mraz, L., Cervenka, V., Komosny, D. et al. Comprehensive Performance Analysis of ZigBee Technology Based on Real Measurements. Wireless Pers Commun 71, 2783–2803 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0971-1

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