Wireless Mesh Networks/Transport

Transport 802.11a Wi-Fi 802.11bg Wi-Fi 802.16 WIMAX ZigBee 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 Others proprietary microwave Throughput http://www.hamilton.ie/dwmalone/11e_mesh.pdf Improving Fairness in Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Using 802.11e References