Zigbee Profile
Chonggang Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang · Auerbach Publications eBooks · 2014
Mesh Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 8.7.3 ZigBee IP Specification Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 8.7.4 ZigBee IP Specification Network Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols used to create personal area networks built from small, low-power digital radios. ZigBee is a low-cost, low-power, wireless mesh network standard that is based on an IEEE 802 standard. Though low-powered, ZigBee devices often transmit data over longer distances by passing data through intermediate devices to reach more distant ones, creating a mesh network; i.e., a network with no centralized control or high-power transmitter/receiver able to reach all of the networked devices. The decentralized nature of such wireless ad-hoc networks make them suitable for applications where a central node can’t be relied upon.