Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering (정보통신설비학회논문지)

Korea Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering (한국정보통신설비학회)
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An Efficient Channel Selection Algorithm of Zigbee Considering the Interference of WLAN in ISM Band

ISM-Band의 무선랜 간섭을 고려한 지그비의 효율적 채널선택기법

  • Received : 2009.02.20
  • Accepted : 2009.03.22
  • Published : 2009.03.31
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Abstract

The conventional channel selection method for a ZigBee communication network basically detects the energy values in all channels. In the ISM band, no license is required to use channels in this band, so there may exist various interference factors in this band. It is well known that WLAN is the major interference factor degrading the performance of ZigBee in the ISM band. In this paper, we propose an efficient channel selection algorithm which uses the pattern of two types of WLAN channel uses as the a priori information of IEEE 802.11 band IEEE 802.11g. By using the proposed algorithm, we may save the time required to select channels for the ZigBee communications.

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