Wireless Mesh Networks/Transport

Transport edit

802.11a Wi-Fi edit

802.11bg Wi-Fi edit

802.16 WIMAX edit

ZigBee edit

ZigBee does not incorporate electric power lines into its technology therefore it is all wireless. ZigBee is very efficient, it can send up to 128 kilobits at a range of 250 feet. It is expected to be seen every from smoke detectors in your house to medical sensing devices. The best part is that it can function for a long time, on inexpensive batteries. Z-Wave also consists solely of wireless technology which is power efficient. It can send about 127 kilobits per second to a range of 100 feet. When you compare you would notice that Z-Wave and Insteon are very much similar. The only difference is that Insteon used electric power cables and Z-Wave doesn't.

Wibree edit

Others edit

proprietary microwave

Throughput edit

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References edit

  1. "Improving Fairness in Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Using 802.11e" (PDF).