ZigBee Specification
June 27, 2005
ZigBee Document 053474r06, Version 1.0
December 14th, 2004
Sponsored by: ZigBee Alliance
Accepted by ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors.
Abstract The ZigBee Specification describes the infrastructure and services available to
applications operating on the ZigBee platform.
Keywords ZigBee, Stack, Network, Application, Profile, Framework, Device description, Bind-
ing, Security
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Contents
Chapter 1 Application Layer Specification.....................................................29
1.1 General description ..........................................................................................................29
1.1.1 Application support sub-layer............................................................................... 29
1.1.2 Application framework.......................................................................................... 29
1.1.3 Addressing........................................................................................................... 30
1.1.4 Application communication fundamentals............................................................ 32
1.1.5 Discovery ............................................................................................................. 32
1.1.6 Binding................................................................................................................. 33
1.1.7 Messaging............................................................................................................ 34
1.1.8 ZigBee device objects.......................................................................................... 35
1.2 The ZigBee application support (APS) sub-layer ............................................................. 35
1.2.1 Scope................................................................................................................... 35
1.2.2 Purpose................................................................................................................ 36
1.2.3 Application support (APS) sub-layer overview..................................................... 36
1.2.4 Service specification ............................................................................................ 37
1.2.5 Frame formats...................................................................................................... 51
1.2.6 Command frames ................................................................................................ 56
1.2.7 Constants and PIB attributes ............................................................................... 56
1.2.8 Functional description.......................................................................................... 57
1.3 The ZigBee application framework................................................................................... 62
1.3.1 Creating a ZigBee profile ..................................................................................... 62
1.3.2 Standard data type formats.................................................................................. 64
1.3.3 ZigBee descriptors............................................................................................... 67
1.3.4 AF frame formats ................................................................................................. 77
1.3.5 KVP command frames......................................................................................... 81
1.3.6 Functional description.......................................................................................... 86
1.4 The ZigBee device profile................................................................................................. 86
1.4.1 Scope................................................................................................................... 86
1.4.2 Device Profile overview........................................................................................ 86
1.4.3 Client services...................................................................................................... 89
1.4.4 Server services .................................................................................................. 109
1.4.5 ZDP enumeration description ............................................................................ 132
1.4.6 Conformance ..................................................................................................... 133
1.5 The ZigBee device objects (ZDO) .................................................................................. 133
1.5.1 Scope................................................................................................................. 133
1.5.2 Device Object Descriptions................................................................................ 134
1.5.3 Layer Interface Description................................................................................ 136
1.5.4 System Usage.................................................................................................... 137
1.5.5 Object Definition and Behavior .......................................................................... 140
1.5.6 Configuration Attributes ..................................................................................... 151
Chapter 2 Network Specification...................................................................159
2.1 NWK layer status values ................................................................................................ 159
2.2 General description ........................................................................................................ 160
2.2.1 Network (NWK) layer overview.......................................................................... 160
