Network Architecture, Security Issues, and Hardware Implementation of a Home Area Network for Smart Grid

Table 2

HAN standards and security algorithm, main characteristics.

	ZigBee	𝑍-Wave	Insteon	Wavenis
RF band,; MHz	868/915/2400	868/908/2400	904	433/868/915/2400
Range,; m	10–100	30–100	45	200–1000
Bit rate,; kbps	20/40/250	9.6/40/200	38.4	4.8/19.2/100
Message size, bytes	127	64	14–28	NA
Security; algorithm	128 b AES	128 b AES	NA	3DES/128 b AES