Hybrid Communication Technologies in Personal Area Networks
Gál Zoltán Dr.
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Debreceni Egyetem TEK
In the last years the body area network (BAN) technologies have increasing role not only in the home, but in the workplace environment, as well. The implosion of the number of Future Internet nodes until the end of recent decade is based on turnout and spread of new type of network nodes. The majority of these nodes will use wireless communication links, where the efficiency of power consumption will have central consideration during the technology development. The classical nodes have to communicate in the bandwidth range of several Gbit/sec to provide modern multimedia services.
Usage of both, wireless and wired communication technologies is a realistic demand in body area and home area environment. For high speed services the G.hn and for sensor networks the IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) are considered to become new popular communication technologies. Because existing wires and wireless transfer technics (WiFi, 3G, LTE, and mobile WiMax) will remain in service for years, solution needs to connect with multiple interfaces and dynamically schedule the active channels of the small network nodes like sensors, PDAs, smart phones, tablets and notebooks. The IEEE 1905.1 hybrid communication technology offers common solution to this challenge by optimal virtualization of the lower network layers.
In the presentation I will give a short overview of the SOHO communication technologies and I discuss in detail the P1905.1 hybrid communication technology prestandard and its anticipated effects to new networking subjects like Internet of Things (IoT) and Future Internet.