A New Cluster Routing Strategy Based on ZigBee

Abstract

Zigbee is a wireless technology as an open global standard used in many applications such as interconnecting sensors, monitoring and automating home, medical, industrial, and agricultural systems where low power consumption are needed. Based on the ZigBee network, a good routing protocol has to be scalable and adaptive to the changes in the network topology. Thus protocols must perform well as the network grows larger or as the workload increases. In this paper we improved a new cluster routing protocol(called AODV Cluster). Fistly, AODV Cluster divides the ZigBee network topology into one or more logical clusters, A cluster label uses the ZigBee address allocation, the one cluster can share a new routing, which saved on energy of the network and reduced communication quantity. Simulation results shows that this protocol not only keep the AODV merit, but also advanced the scalability. Especially in dense network, performance is superior than AODV.