IEEE 802.15.5 WPAN mesh standard-low rate part: Meshing the wireless sensor networks

—This paper introduces a new IEEE standard, IEEE 802.15.5,which provides mesh capability for wireless personal area network (WPAN) devices. The standard provides an architectural framework enabling WPAN devices to promote interoperable, stable, and scalable wireless mesh topologies. It is composed of two parts: low-rate WPAN mesh and high-rate WPAN mesh. In this paper, we present only low-rate WPAN mesh because it is designed to support wireless sensor networks. IEEE 802.15.5 low-rate part is a light-weight scalable mesh routing protocol that caters well to the requirements of resource-constrained wireless sensor networks. By binding logical addresses to the network topology, IEEE 802.15.5 obviates the need for route discovery. This eliminates the initial route discovery latency, saves storage space and reduces the communication overhead and energy consumption. A distributed link state scheme is further built atop the block addressing scheme to improve the quality of routes, robustne...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: JSAC
• Authors: Myung J. Lee, Rui Zhang, Jianliang Zheng, Gahng-Seop Ahn, Chunhui Zhu, Tae Rim Park, Sung Rae Cho, Chang Sub Shin, Jun Sun Ryu
• Keywords: JSAC 2010, Wireless Personal Area Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, WPAN