IEEE Standards and Emerging

Technologies: ZigBee and WBAN

Presented by
Sk Jahid Ahmed
Roll No. : 001110701024
Department of E.T.C.E, Jadavpur University

Introduction
It is the era of wireless technology. Life is becoming faster
everyday. From Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to the most recent
Body area network the uprising technology has made our
life advanced and easy indeed.
All the above mentioned technologies are related through
wireless space technologies.

 We need different modules for implementing these technologies in

real life scenario.
Engineers and researchers have defined several standards for
these modules based on data rates, power consumption, load and
reliability of the network.
TheInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Standards
Association(IEEE-SA)
is
an
organization
withinIEEEthat develops globalstandardsin a broad range of
industries, including: power and energy, biomedicalandhealth
care,information, technology, telecommunication, transportation,
nanotechnology, information assurance and many more.
Among the entire IEEE standards family the most important in
modern day scenario is undoubtedly the IEEE 802 family. IEEE 802
standards deal with local area networks(LAN) and metropolitan area
networks.
The most widely used standards are for the Ethernet family, Token

What is the need for the standards?

Make or break networking products
Inter operability and relations among all these technologies
Vendor independence in designing and manufacturing the
products
Providing a common ground for manufacturers to have a
standardization

The services and protocols specified in IEEE 802 map to the lower two
layers (Data Link and Physical) of the seven-layerOSInetworking
reference model. In fact, IEEE 802 splits the OSI Data Link Layer into two
sub-layers namedLogical Link Control(LLC) andMedia Access
Control(MAC), so that the layers can be listed like this:

Data link layer

LLC Sublayer
MAC Sublayer

Physical layer

OSI Model and Sublayers for IEEE 802

standards

IEEE 802 specifications

 We will mainly focus on IEEE

802.15 i.e. the family of
Wireless
Personal
Area
Networks, more precisely on
ZigBee
and
Body
Area
Network
Bluetooth
is
the
most
significant and common in
this family.
ZigBee is one of the low data
wireless technologies most
discussed and researched in
recent days.
Body Area Network is newest
in the family and still needs
a lot of research for proper
modification.

The 802 Wireless space

ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4)

What is ZigBee?
Technological Standard Created for Control and Sensor
Networks (lights, switches, thermostats, appliances).
ZigBee is based on anIEEE 802.15.4 standard.
Named for erratic, zig-zagging patterns of bees between
flowers.
ZigBee Aims Low
Low data rate
Low power consumption
Small packet devices

How ZigBee works?

Topology
Star
Cluster Tree
Mesh
Network coordinator, routers, end devices

ZigBee Network Configuration

ZigBee Module

Basic Differences among Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and

ZigBee

ZigBee Applications
Current Applications:
Environmental Monitoring
Agricultural Monitoring
Home Automation

Future Applications:
Road map of products-tracking
Personal and healthcare
Commercial and residential control

Future of ZigBee

Wireless Body Area Network (IEEE

802.15.6)
Increasing population and the rising costs of health care have triggered the
introduction of novel technology-driven enhancements to current health care
practices.
Recent advances in electronics have enabled the development of small and
intelligent (bio) medical sensors which can be worn on or implanted in the
human body.
Thus introduced Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN).
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has great potential to revolutionize the
future of healthcare technology.
Earlier, IEEE 802 had many success stories in developing international
standards on wireless communication. Examples include IEEE 802.11, IEEE
802.15.1 and IEEE 802.15.4 standards. The purpose of the IEEE 802.15.6 was
to define new Physical (PHY) and Medium Access Control (MAC) layers for
WBAN.
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History and Development of WBAN

WBAN technology is still an emerging technology.
1 Gbit/s
Wireless USB

100 Mbit/s

Bluetooth
B
o
dy

100 kbit/s

IEEE 802.11 a/b/g

A
r
ea

1 Mbit/s

N
e
tw
o
rk

10 Mbit/s

ZigBee

10 kbit/s
1 kbit/s

100 mW200 mW
500 mW
1000 mW
2 mW 5 mW10 mW20 mW50 mW
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PHY Layer Specifications

The current IEEE 802.15.6 standard defines three PHY layers
Narrowband (NB)
Ultra wideband (UWB)
Human Body Communications (HBC) layers.

The selection of each PHY depends on the application requirements. On the

top of it, the standard defines a sophisticated MAC protocol that controls
access to the channel.
In IEEE 802.15.6, PHY is responsible for
The activation and deactivation of the radio transceiver
Clear channel assessment

WBAN Applications

WBAN architecture and

Future

Thank You Very Much For Your

Attention.