Notes - MIECT
Comunicações Móveis
Notes - MIECT
Comunicações Móveis
  • Comunicações Móveis
  • The Communication Network
    • The Phone Network
    • The Internet
    • The Mobile Network
  • Wireless Systems
    • Wireless Systems
    • Mobile Hassles
    • Device Issues
    • Why is mobile hard?
  • Physical Layer
    • Classifications of Transmission Media
    • Wireless
    • Radio Transmission Impairments
    • Time-Domain View
    • Propagation Degrades
    • Propagation Mechanisms
    • Redundancy
  • Satellite Networks
    • Satellites
    • Satellite Networks
      • GEO - Geostationary Orbit
      • NGSO - Non Geostationary Orbits
    • Routing
  • Mobile Networks
    • Connections and structures
    • Cell
    • Wireless networks
    • 802.11
    • Infrastructure vs Ad Hoc Mode
    • Data Flow Examples
    • Physical layer
    • MAC
      • Multi-bit Rate
      • MAC Layer
      • Carrier Sense Multiple Access
      • Some More MAC Features
    • How does a station connect to an Access Point?
      • IEEE 802.11 Mobility
    • How to extend range in Wi- Fi?
      • IEEE 1905.1 standard, Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies
  • Bluetooth, Wireless Sensor Networks, ZigBee
    • Bluetooth
      • Piconets
        • Device Discovery Illustrated
        • Paging
      • Scatternet
      • Bluetooth Stack
        • Baseband in Bluetooth
        • Adaptation protocols
      • Profiles and security
        • Bluetooth
        • Link keys in a piconet
      • 802.15.x
        • Bluetooth Networking Encapsulation Protocol
        • Bluetooth 4.0: Low Energy
          • Device Modes
          • Link Layer Connection
          • How low can the energy get?
          • BLE and GAP
    • Wireless Sensor Networks
      • MIoT and HIoT are different
      • Types of Wireless Networks
      • Wireless Sensor Network
      • 802.15.4 and Zigbee
      • 802.15.4 / ZigBee Architecture
        • IEEE 802.15.4 MAC
        • Channel Access Mechanism
        • Association procedures
        • ZigBee
        • ZigBee and BLE
  • Cellular Networks
    • Wireless cellular network
    • Wide Area Wireless Sensor Networks (WWSN)
      • LTE-M
      • NB-IoT
      • Spectrum & Access
      • Cellular technologies
      • LoRa
      • The Things Network
    • Technological waves
    • 1G - Mobile voice
    • 2G - Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
    • 2.5G - General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
    • 3G - Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
      • Multiplexing mechanisms
      • SIP Protocol
      • Services in IMS
    • 4G - Long Term Evolution/Evolved Packet Core (LTE/EPC)
      • Long Term Evolution (LTE)
    • 5G
      • Example of verticals
      • 3GPP Releases detail
      • Technologies
      • New Radio is required
      • System architecture
      • Non-stand Alone (NSA)
      • Networks deployment
      • Protocol stacks
      • Procedures
      • QoS Model
      • Mobility in 5G
      • Distributed cloud: Edge Computing and 5G
      • Slicing
    • 6G
  • Software and Virtualization Technologies in Mobile Communication Networks
    • Network Function Virtualization
    • Management and Orchestration
    • Software Defined Networking
      • How to “direct” the controller?
      • Emulation
      • Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors (P4)
    • OpenRAN
    • Multi-access Edge Computing
    • Network Automation
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  1. Bluetooth, Wireless Sensor Networks, ZigBee
  2. Wireless Sensor Networks
  3. 802.15.4 / ZigBee Architecture

ZigBee and BLE

Business Comparison

ZigBee is older. It has gone through some iterations.

ZigBee has a market mindshare, but not a lot of shipments yet.

Market barriers: connectivity – ZigBee is not in PCs or mobile phones yet.

Technical Comparison

Zigbee is low power; Bluetooth LE is even lower. The detailed analysis depends on specific applications and design detail, not to mention chip geometry.

The ZigBee stack is light; the Bluetooth LE/GATT stack is even simpler.

  • Remember: GATT – Generic ATTribute profile.

Going Forward

ZigBee has a lead in developing applications and presence.

Bluetooth low energy has improved technology, and a commanding presence in several existing markets: mobile phones, automobiles, consumer electronics, PC industry.

Replacing “classic Bluetooth ” with “dual mode” devices will bootstrap this market quickly.

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