ZBR-M: A NEW ZIGBEE ROUTING PROTOCOL

Various wireless technologies have been designed to assist with the resource management in a typical supply chain. Wireless communication systems could be a solution easily deployable, helping to improve the supply chain management and to reduce the overall cost of the system. For logistic applications, the ZigBee technology can be used in order to manage and track goods. This technology based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard is, actually, used for the design of wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture. Several applications using this type of networks require the interconnection of a considerable number of nodes. That’s why an efficient routing protocol should be deployed by taking into account WSNs constraints. The purpose of this work is to study the routing mechanisms already defined by the ZigBee standard and to improve the existing ZBR protocol by proposing a new protocol called ZBR-M which highlights the scalability