Author(s)

Nazrul Islam¹, Md. Jaminul Haque Biddut¹, Md. Faizul Huq Arif¹, Mohammad Motiur Rahman², Md. Syfur Rahman³

¹Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail, Bangladesh.
²Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail, Bangladesh.
³Education Management Information System (EMIS) Cell, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a special type of communication medium through distributed sensor nodes. Popular wireless sensor nodes like ZigBee have splendid interoperability after IEEE 802.15.4 standardization in the domain of wireless personal area network (WPAN). ZigBee has another great feature mobility that makes the ZigBee network more versatile. The mobility feature of ZigBee mobile nodes has a greater impact on network performance than fixed nodes. This impact sometimes turns into more severe because of network structure and mobility model. This study mainly focuses on the performance analysis of the ZigBee mobile node under Random and Octagonal mobility management model with the Tree routing method. The Riverbed academic modeler is used to design, implement and simulate the ZigBee network under certain conditions. This study also presents a competitive performance analysis based on ZigBee mobile nodes transmitter and receiver characteristics under the observation of the mobility model. This indicates that Octagonal mobility model exhibits better performance than the Random mobility model. This study will constitute a new way for further designing and planning a reliable and efficient ZigBee network.

WSN, ZigBee Network, Mobility, Octagonal Structure, Riverbed

Islam, N. , Biddut, M. , Huq Arif, M. , Rahman, M. and Rahman, M. (2016) Mobility Issue on Octagonal Structured ZigBee Network Using Riverbed. International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, 9, 55-66. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2016.93005.