| Summary: | Utilization of wireless communication technologies in wireless personal area
network (WPAN) applications is growing along with the high demand for data
communication services. In particular for data communication services with low data
rate already available ZigBee standard which developed by the ZigBee Alliance based
on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. ZigBee standard can be used in wireless sensor
networks (WSN) with a mesh topology. WSN which formed WPAN that uses ZigBee
standard has the capability to thousands of WSN devices can be combined in a single
WPAN. With that ability need to do testing WPAN performance parameters to get the
number of WSN devices for the best and optimal performance in mesh topology, in
particular partial mesh network topology.
Using the OPNET
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Modeler
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14.5 Educational Version application which
executed by the Microsoft
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Windows
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XP Service Pack 3 operating system, the research
of the ZigBee standard performance on WPAN with partial mesh network topology
measure data throughput parameters, the number of data traffic parameters that
involved in communication (sent, receive and drop), the delay time parameters, as well
as the hop number parameters. Testing about the influence of the number of WSN
devices is done by running a simulation of the 20 kinds WPAN where every WPAN has
one WSN gateway and the number of WSN devices ranging from 5 and increasingly by 5
to reach the 100 WSN devices in a single WPAN.
The results showed that WPAN performance with ZigBee standard in partial
mesh network topology has the best conditions when the maximum number WSN devices
achieve 20 WSN devices. Although so the WPAN performance still optimal (qualified)
until the number of WSN devices amounted to 50 WSN devices.
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