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On Boosting Integrated WLAN & ZigBee Network Performance via Load Balancing

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Communications

Abstract

Network traffic and overload are constantly increasing. This situation leads to congestion and packet losses at bottlenecks and across the different parts and devices of the network. Luckily, network technologies and techniques are developing rapidly. This paper is dedicated to applying and testing the impact of load balancing mechanisms on network performance. Two networking scenarios are considered: "server on-premise" and "server on cloud ."The research takes place in a vast scale network where two of the most popular technologies are spotted in an integrated multiprotocol scenario of Wireless Area networks (WLAN) with the Internet of Things (IoT) ZigBee. Previous studies were concerned by the challenges present due to the very different natures of IoT ZigBee and WLAN networks. This paper presents a better quality of service (QoS) by applying load balancing to these integrated scenarios. Not just that, it also introduces an even better Qos by deploying the rapidly growing popular technology of cloud computing to the same scenario of integrated networks with load balancing. By applying the same data rates with the same timers and networking parameters, network performance is measured and compared to show the difference between previous work without load balancing, and this papers work after deploying load balancing. The research shows whether load balancing has a positive or a negative effect on network performance or does not affect some cases. The network performance parameters under consideration are traffic dropped; traffic received, delay and throughput. Load balancing is tested regarding two different server positions.

DOI

10.21608/erjeng.2022.118744.1052

Keywords

IOT, Load Balancing, ZigBee, WLAN, Cloud Computing

Authors

First Name

Shahinaz

Last Name

Elkasrawy

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Affiliation

Communications and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Email

eng.shahinaz@gmail.com

City

Tanta

Orcid

0000-0002-5629-1156

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Nasr

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-

Affiliation

Communications and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Email

menasr2001@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Elkhobby

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-

Affiliation

Communications and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

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h_khobby@yahoo.com

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-

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First Name

Sameh

Last Name

Napoleon

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-

Affiliation

Communications and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

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s.napoleon@gmail.com

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-

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Volume

6

Article Issue

1

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32925

Issue Date

2022-03-01

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2022-01-28

Publish Date

2022-03-01

Page Start

74

Page End

84

Print ISSN

2356-9441

Online ISSN

2735-4873

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1,605

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Journal of Engineering Research

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23 Jan 2023