Low-Latency Wireless Data Transfer for Motion Control

Table 1

Characteristics of several wireless communication techniques.

Communication technique	Bandwidth	Minimum delay
Bluetooth	1 Mbps [2]	7 ms [5, 6]
IEEE 802.11b WLAN (TCP/IP)	11 Mbps [1]	20–25 ms [5]
IEEE 802.11b WLAN (UDP/IP)	11 Mbps [1]	1.78 ms [4]
Zigbee	250 Kbps [3]	15 ms [18]