ZigBee vs WiFi: Understanding issues and measuring performances of their coexistence

Abstract

Wireless coexistence is crucial with the explosive development of wireless technologies in recent years. The coexistence issues of IEEE 802.11 b/g and IEEE 802.15.4 have been well studied, however few work focused on 802.11n new features including MIMO, channel bonding and frame aggregation. In this paper, we conducted extensive experiments to understand how 802.11n impact on 802.15.4 and vice versa in a systematic way. We consider primary features of 802.11n both in symmetric and asymmetric scenarios. The goal of our work is to gain more insights into the coexistence issues of 802.11n and 802.15.4 and thus to help protocol design and co-located network deployments.