Many wireless technologies used to build local or personal area networks (WLANs, WPANs) operate into the 2.4 GHz ISM band. Due to the mutual interference, the coexistence of such devices working at the same time in the same area can be troublesome. This paper reports the result of an extensive experimental study on the performance of three popular technologies (ZigBee, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth), under their mutual disturbance. In addition to assessing the effect of the interference between pairs of technologies, we also analyzed the simultaneous interference among the three systems, a scenario that has never been studied before. Our work partly confirms previous findings, but also reveals some unexpected behaviors, imposing to reconsider some assumptions about the supposed interference-free ZigBee and Bluetooth channels.
['Rosario Giuseppe Garroppo', 'Loris Gazzarrini', 'Stefano Giordano', 'Luca Tavanti']
Experimental assessment of the coexistence of Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth devices