Abstract: The emerging IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) standard is used for low data rate, low power consumption and low cost wireless personal area networks (WPANs). Image transmission over such networks is considered an issue since image traffic contains a large amount of information that requires high data rates. ZigBee, in general, uses a single channel for data transmission. The aggregate throughput of ZigBee network can be improved by using multiple channels. The main focus of the paper is on the image transmission over ZigBee networks using multiple channels and multiple radio interfaces, which aims to improve the total throughput of networks. The results show that the image transmission over the proposed method is feasible.

Key words: image transmission, ZigBee protocol, multi-channel