Open-ZB: An Open-Source Implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Protocol Stack on TinyOS

The IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocols are gaining increasing interests in both research and industrial communities as candidate technologies for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications. In this paper, the authors present an open-source implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol stack under the TinyOS operating system for the MICAz and TelosB motes. This paper has been driven by the need for an opensource implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocols, filling a gap between some newly released complex C implementations and black-box implementations from different manufacturers. In addition, they share their experience on the challenging problems that they have faced during the implementation of the protocol stack.