IEEE Publishes New Edition of Book on Low-Rate, Wireless Personal Area Networks
The IEEE updated its standard on low-rate, wireless personal area networks (WPAN), IEEE 802.15.4(TM), in 2006. This has led it to publish a second edition of the book , “Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks: Enabling Wireless Sensors with IEEE 802.15.4″, which was written to complement the standard and to help those implementing the standard for sensors and actuators.
The new edition, authored by Jose Gutierrez, Edgar Callaway and Raymond Barrett, expands the book to include changes made in the revised standard and the new opportunities it presents. The changes made include two additional physical layers that allow higher data rates at lower frequency bands (at 868 and 915 MHz), an updated security mechanism, and alterations to the MAC sub-layer.
IEEE 802.15.4 addresses applications for sensors and actuators in industrial, agricultural, vehicular, residential, medical and other fields that need relaxed throughput and latency requirements and low-cost, low-power designs. The updated book reviews the standard, the applications that motivate it, and the rationale for design options made in its creation.
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