International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 181 - Number 8 |
Year of Publication: 2018 |
Authors: Gürcan Çetin, Hüseyin Gürüler, Mehmet Osman Devrim, Sefa Tuncay |
10.5120/ijca2018917611 |
Gürcan Çetin, Hüseyin Gürüler, Mehmet Osman Devrim, Sefa Tuncay . Performance Analysis of ZigBee Protocol in the Large-Scale Network Topologies. International Journal of Computer Applications. 181, 8 ( Aug 2018), 11-15. DOI=10.5120/ijca2018917611
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are self-configurable ad-hoc networks. To set up a seamlessly interoperable a WSN, a wireless sensor device technology called ZigBee is used. Moreover, ZigBee is an IEEE 802.15.4 based specification for a group of high-level communication protocols used to build area networks having both small range and wide range coverage. The design of the communication infrastructure and hardware components are crucial in the large-scale ZigBee networks in order to ensure communication efficiency in the real world applications. This study presents a performance analysis of a large-scale ZigBee networks for three different topologies comparatively. The performance of ZigBee devices has been analyzed in the network simulator OPNET in terms of total end-to-end delay, MAC throughput and MAC load.