Wireless Personal Area

Network
Rajkeen Chamanshaikh
(TP2F1516012)

Wireless Personal Area Network

A WPAN (Wireless PAN) is a short-distance
wireless network specifically designed to
support portable and mobile computing
devices such as PCs, PDAs, wireless printers
and storage devices, cell phones, pagers,
set-top boxes, and a variety of consumer
electronics equipment within a small service
area of up to 10 meters.

 The IEEE 802.15 standards is a family of

protocols to address the needs of Wireless
Personal are networks (WPAN) at different
data rates in 2.4 GHz ISM band.
The 802.15 working group is defining different
versions for devices that have different
requirements.
IEEE 802.15.1/Bluetooth
IEEE 802.15.3/High rate WPAN
IEEE 802.15.4/Low rate WPAN

IEEE 802.15.1/Bluetooth
WPANs such as Bluetooth provide the
bandwidth and convenience to make
data exchange practical for mobile
devices such as palm computers.
A Bluetooth PAN is also called a
piconet, and is composed of up to 8
active devices in a master-slave
relationship (up to 255 devices can
be connected in 'parked' mode).

 The first Bluetooth device in the

piconet is the master, and all
other devices are slaves that
communicate with the master.
A piconet typically has a range of
10 meters, although ranges of
up to 100 meters can be reached
under ideal circumstances.
A wireless PAN consists of a
dynamic group of less than 255
devices that communicate within
about a 33-foot range.
Unlike with wireless LANs, only
devices within this limited area
typically participate in the
network, and no online
connection with external devices
is defined.

IEEE 802.15.1 Protocol

Architecture
The IEEE 802.15.1 WPAN Standard
protocol architecture defines the physical
layer specifications and MAC layer
requirements.
The IEEE 802.15.1 standards also properly
known as Bluetooth specifications defines
the physical layer comprising of a
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
(FHSS) device that uses the world wide
unlicensed 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band.

Parameter

Specifications

RF Spectrum
Allocation

2.4 GHz

Number of RF
Channels

79

Channel Bandwidth

1 MHz

Multiple access
scheme

BluetooothFHSS-TDD-TDMA
Phisical layer specifications
in

Frequency Hop rate

Modulation Scheme
Symbol Transmission
rate

piconet;
FHSS-CDMA in
scatternet
1600 hops per second
GFSK
1 Msps

802.15-3: High-Rate
IEEE 802.15.3-2003 is a MAC and PHY
standard for high-rate (11 to 55 Mbit/s)
WPANs.
EEE 802.15.3a was an attempt to provide
a higher speedUltra widebandPHY
enhancement amendment to IEEE 802.15.3
for applications which involve imaging and
multimedia.

 Standard for high-rate (20Mbit/s or greater)

WPANs, while still low-power/low-cost
Data Rates: 11, 22, 33, 44, 55 Mbit/s
Quality of Service isochronous protocol
Ad hoc peer-to-peer networking
Security
Low power consumption
Low cost
Designed to meet the demanding
requirements of portable consumer imaging
and multimedia applications

802.15-4: Low-Rate
IEEE 802.15.4-2003 (Low Rate WPAN) deals with low
data rate but very long battery life (months or even
years) and very low complexity.
The standard defines both the physical (Layer 1)
and data-link (Layer 2) layers of theOSI model.
The first edition of the 802.15.4 standard was
released in May 2003.

 Low data rate solution with multimonth to multi-year battery life and
very low complexity
Data rates of 20-250 kbit/s, latency
down to 15 ms
Automatic network establishment by
the PAN coordinator
Dynamic device addressing, flexible
addressing format
Fully handshake protocol for transfer
reliability
Power management to ensure low
power consumption
16 channels in the 2.4 GHz ISM band,
10 channels in the 915 MHz US ISM
band and one channel in the European
868 MHz band

Applications
Bluetoothuses short-range radio waves
over distances up to approximately 10
metres. For example, Bluetooth devices
such as a keyboards, pointing devices,
audio head sets, printers may connect
topersonal digital assistants(PDAs),cell
phones, or computers wirelessly.
Infrared Data Association (IrDA) uses
infrared light, which has a frequency below
the human eye's sensitivity. Infrared in
general is used, for instance, in TV
remotes. Typical WPAN devices that use

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