ZigBee Physical IEEE

ZigBee Physical IEEEThis report work started with large literature study in several ara of ZigBee, particular in the material feeling. This knowledge was then implemented in simulating the natural aspect of the Zigbee working in the range of 2.4 gigacycle per second. Various parameter of the physical grade ar alter to demonstrate the its effect by victimisation MATLAB(syntax write in jurisprudence in M-file and Simulink). entrusts ar analyzed and compargond to demonstrate how the actual standard and spec argon derived.2.0 Literature ReviewZigbee is known as IEEE 802.15.4 Low-Rate Wire s trip personalized Area communicate (WPAN) standard is part of the IEEE 802 family of digital chat standards. It is designed for unhopeful-monetary value, economic crisis-world role applications that acquire relatively low information throughput which is down to an add up of less than 1 bps. It is also diverseiated from IEEE 802.15.1TM (Bluetooth TM) in several respects it does not support isochronous voice, as Bluetooth does. Figure 2.0(a) shows the semblance with standard and technologies.2.1 ApplicationsZigBee engine room is well suited to a wide range of energy counseling and efficiency, edifice automation, industrial, medical, home automation applications. Essentially, applications that require interoperability and/or the RF work characteristics of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard would benefit from a ZigBee solution. Examples include Demand Response move on Metering InfrastructureAutomatic Meter ReadingLighting controlsHVAC control hotness controlEnvironmental controlsWireless smoke and CO detectorsHome security departmentBlind, drapery and shade controlsMedical sensing and monitoringUniversal far Control to a Set-Top Box which includes Home ControlIndustrial and building automation2.2 Advantages The most appealing favours Zigbee has is low designer usance receivable low duty cycle of end kink that only turns on when required, uses only small capacity of battery but long operate time. It is also relatively low cost compargon to diverse tuner ne twainrk. It offered low message throughput with the size of code ranges from 32kB to 70kB and is only approximately 10% of code size used in Bluetooth technology. Other advantages are listed on a start floor-Large network order.-Few QoS guarantee -Selectable levels of security based on the Advanced encryption Standard with128- play keys (AES-128) s.2.3 Physical socio-economic classIEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee has two getable physical layers. In the 2.4-GHz band, it supports a data rate of 250 kbps there are 16 available television channels, centred at 2405 + 5k MHz, where 0 k 15. The other physical layer is a regional one, c all overing the 868.0 to 868.6 MHz band available in atomic number 63 and the 902 to 928 MHz band available in often of the Americas. on that point is a single channel in the 868 MHz band, centred at 868.3 MHz, with a BPSK data rate of 20 kbps the standar d supports a BPSK data rate of 40 kbps in the 902 to 928 MHz band, with channels centred at 906 + 2k MHz, where 0 k 9.12.4 Network topologiesTo play its wide range of electric potential applications, IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee supports star, mesh, and tree networks, the latter two beingness multihop networks.Multihop NetworkA multi-hop communications allows data from one device to be relayed to another device via intercessor devices. By relying on these intermediary devices, the range of a given network can be importantly increased while at the said(prenominal) time limiting the precedent consumption of to each one device. 2 Star NetworkStar network topologies are commonly referred to as point-to-point and point-to-multipoint networks. This topology can be supported by either ZigBee or 802.15.4. In this network, all devices are hold in to single-hop communications. typic applications for star networks include garage door openers and remote controls. 22.5 DSSS (Direct Sequence extend Spectrum)IEEE 802.15.4 uses direct date spread spectrum (DSSS) for robust data communications. A DSSS spectrum strategy is spreading baseband by directly multiplying the baseband data with the PN code grade. At the receiving system side code, synchronization is received and the presage is passed through a filter. At the next step, it is multiplied by a local version of the like PN period. The received data are then dispread. The polarity bandwidth is reduced. An stoppage planetary house go forth be spread when multiplying with the dispread episode and the power of the interference is reduced when the bandwidth are increased. The part of the interference signalise that does not pass water the alike(p) bandwidth as the desired signal is then filter out. In this way the most of the interference power is eliminated.2.6 Channel AccessThere are two types of channel access in the IEEE 802.15.4 defined communication system. They are based on whether the devices want to retain their own liquid ecstasy time slot for communication or they have to compete with other devices for accessing the channel. The contention based allows the devices to access the channel in distributed way using CSMA CA algorithm. With this method each devices has to scan the air medium for set ease channel or to compete with other devices for the channel access. With contention free method, the network coordinator decides about the channel access by using Guaranteed clip Slot (GTS) of the channel space. This method is suitable for latency sensitive devices that require short delay time and no competition for channel access.To meet its low average power consumption goals, IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee is capable of extremely low duty cycles below 10 ppm 3. The standard also supports beaconless ope proportionalityn an asynchronous, corrupt mode supporting unslotted CSMA-CA channel access for star networks that enables devices other than the receiving commutation node to remain a sleep for indefinite periods, thus reducing their average power consumption still further.2.7 Data processingIEEE 802.15.4 2.4-GHz physical layer uses a 16-ary quasi- wise signalling technique trading signal bandwidth to recover sensitivity with coding gain. A particular 32- arrest, pseudo-random (PN) sequence is used to make up four identification numbers 3.A chip is a type from p-n code sequence. There are 16 chips sequence and one is defined in table belowInformation is determined on the signal by cyclically rotating or conjugating (inverting chips with odd indices) the PN sequence 8. The PN sequence is rotated in increments of four chips practices 0 through 7 represent rotation without conjugation and symbolizations 8 through 15 represent the same rotations, but with conjugation. In this way, four bits are placed on each genic symbol and, because transmitted symbols are related by unproblematic rotations and conjugations, receiver implementations can be simplified over other orthogonal signalling techniques that employ unrelated PN sequences.Half-sine shaped equaliser-Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (O-QPSK) is engaged, in which the chips of level index are placed on the I-channel and the chips of odd index are delayed one-half chip period and then placed on the Q-channel. The chip rate on either the I or the Q channel is 1 Mchip/s, so the overall chip rate is 2 Mchip/s. The symbol rate is 62.5 k symbols/s, leading to a data rate of 250 kbps. 43.0 verbal description of the SimulatorIn this report, Simulink and syntax code (M-file) in MATLAB are used to provide the fragmentise plot. For the implementation of overall block system in Simulink model, the homogeneous block diagram is as shown preceding(prenominal). The Simulink model block consists of random integer generator, modulator and demodulator, folie channel and also erroneous belief rate calculator. Simulink model effectively represent the complicated syntax code into system model b lock. The signal is generated by using a Random integer, the Random Integer writer block generates uniformly distributed random integers in the range 0, M-1. Then, the signal are modulated by OQPSK, the Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (OQPSK) prosody lineation is used in this assignment. As stated in literature review, Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (OQPSK) is a variant of phase- shake keying transition using 4 different values of the phase to transmit. Addictive White Gaussian hindrance is then added to the signal to affect a practical channel which consists resound. later on that, the signal is demodulated by using the same scheme-OQPSK. Result are compared with the initial signal (output from the Random Integer) to calculate the BER and SER surgical operation of the scheme. The Discrete-Time Scatter Plot setting block displays scatter plots of a modulated signal, which are located after(prenominal) AWGN block to reveal the modulation characteristics, such as channel distortions of the signal.For M-file code, the sequence is similar as the above block diagram, the following command are to used to generated the random signal out = randint(m,n,rg)The code represented above generates an m by n integer matrix of random number. varying rg represent the range of random number to be generated.The modulating part and demodulating are through with(p) by using the below codey = oqpskmod(x)y = oqpskdemod(x)To add noise to the signaly = awgn(x,snr,measured)Where x is the input signal and snr is the signal to noise ratio.The scatter plot are plotted by usingscatterplot(y)Besides plotting the scatter plot, the BER versus SNR curve are plotted as it is important to compare different modulating scheme in term of the BER performance. This is done by using syntax code in M-file. The complete code is attached in the appendix. The following is the flow chart to describe the sequence of the code. At the end, three charts are generated ideal BER characte ristic, practical BER characteristic and SER characteristic.4.0 Result and Discussion . Dots are located at the centre of the boundary lines which is inside the box or boundary line. This indicated that proper digital signal is being received. The closer the detected level/phase dots are plotted to the nitty-gritty of the boundaries, the lesser noise and interference to the digital signal. However this diagram will never be obtain in practical cases. Therefore to simulate a practical real cases, Addictive White Gaussian noise must be considered, additive Gaussian noise disturb the digitally modulated signal during analog transmission, for instance in the analog channel. Additive superimposed noise normally has a constant power minginess and a Gaussian amplitude distribution throughout the bandwidth of a channel. If no other fault is present at the same time, the points representing the ideal signal status are expanded to form circular clouds as shown below.As figure above shown, scattering of the dots indicates some marginal signal performance degradation but not enough to cause significant digital bit demerits because dots are still located inside the boundary. Only dots to the edges of the quarter-circle or beyond represent significant degradation that results in bit faults during decoding which are shown in figure below generated by using Simulink . In conventional QPSK, change in the input bit from 00 to 11 or 01 to 10 causes a corresponding 180 shift in the output phase therefore an advantage of OQPSK is the limited phase shift that must be imparted during modulation. The sudden phase-shifts occur about twice as often as for QPSK (since the signals no longer change together), but they are less severe. In other words, OQPSK has smaller jumps when compared to QPSK. This lowers the dynamical range of fluctuations in the signal which is desirable in engineering communications signals.As mentioned earlier, the show is performed to study the performance of the design model. The study is done by detect the bit error rate (BER) with respect to the signal to noise ratio (SNR) The simulation (Figure 4.0(f)) compares the BER versus SNR curve for different modulation scheme used. Four different modulation schemes is taken into comparison, which is the Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), differential gear Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) and finally Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (OQPSK) employed by Zigbee operating at 2.4GHz radio band. By comparing different modulation scheme give better insight on which modulation is better and suitable. All modulation schemes are simulated with the value M = 4, where it is effectively represented by n = 2 bits which can be calculated from the following formula belown = log2 (M)The first graph below shows the theoretical bit error rate versus signal to noise ratio curve.For practical system, white Gaussian noise is added. If comparison is do between theoretical graph and practical graph, it shows that there is not much of the different in term of the shape of the graph. ,it shows that for all the modulating scheme, the high the SNR the lower the BER (bit error rate).The same principal are apply to the symbol error rate(SER) vs SNR(figure 4.0(g)).For BER vs SNR, comparing the four different modulation schemes from the practical graph plotted, DPSK modulation scheme shows to have the worst bit error rate at any level of SNR, followed by QPSK and QAM having approximately similar bit error rate at any SNR level. The OQPSK tends to have the lowest bit error rate at any SNR level if compared to other modulation scheme, which is desired.The comparison is done by taking one fixed SNR level, for example, considering the SNR level of -2. The bit error rate of OQPSK falls approximately to 10-2, which is the smallest. The QAM and QPSK have bit error rate falls within the range of 110-1 to 510-1, slightly much higher than OQPSK. The DPSK has the high est bit error rate, which is above the range 110-1.2dBGraph 4.0(h) illustrate symbol error rate (SER) versus signal to noise ratio (SNR) under the same condition for the four modulation scheme. The SER versus SNR curve has similar characteristic over the BER versus SNR curve, with OQPSK being in the best performance, followed by QPSK and QAM and DPSK having the worst performances.Low average power is achieved with a low overall system duty cycle. However, low duty cycle must be achieved with low peak power consumption during active periods because most of the target power sources have limited current sourcing capabilities and low terminal voltage, and it is not desired to implement with analyzable power conditioning systems for cost and efficiency reasons. At the physical layer, the expect for low duty cycle yet low active power consumption implies the quest for a high data rate (to sex active periods quickly and return to sleep), but a low symbol rate (because signal processing peak power consumption is more than closely tied to the symbol rate than the data rate). Therefore, this implies the need for multilevel signalling (or m-ary signalling, with m 2), in which multiple information bits are sent per transmitted symbol. However, simple multilevel signalling, such as 4-FSK, results in a handout of sensitivity. As can be seen from figure 4.0(h), OQPSK provides a 2-dB increasein sensitivity over nearest scheme (QAM). For modulating scheme with low sensitivity, there is a need to recover the needed link margin (i.e. range) without resorting to directive antennas, the transmitted power must be increased or the receiver noise figure must be reduced, both of which can increase power consumption significantly.5.0 Conclusion In conclusion, IEEE 802.15.4 is still a new standard which has the potential to unify methods of data communication for sensors, actuators, appliances, asset tracking devices and so on. It offers the elbow room to build a reliable and af fordable network backbone that takes advantage of battery-powered devices communicating at low data rates. In appendage the complexity and cost of the IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee-compliant devices are intended to be low. It can potentially create a whole new ecosystem of interconnected home appliances, light and climate control systems, and security and sensor sub-networks.In this respect, the implementation of the physical layer of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard must be optimized to meet the challenging affordable and low-power targets. From the context above, various test and evaluation on the BER versus SNR curve and scatter plot for various scheme are done on physical layer of the ZigBee, the result shows that OQPSK is the most suitable modulating scheme which fit the ZigBee (2.4 GHz band) characteristic (low power consumption, high sensitivity, high reliability and low cost ). Thus it coincides with the actual standard for Zigbee.6.0 References 1. sensing element Technology Handbook, P age 593 particle22. 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