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Peer-to-peer Topology: Peer-to-peer topology has also single PAN coordinator to which overall network depends. In contrast to the star topology, here any node can communicate with any other node as long as they are in the same range and comply with same protocol. A peer-to-peer network can be ad hoc, self-forming and self-healing in nature. Applications such as industrial control and monitoring, wireless sensor networks, asset tracking and inventory monitoring would follow such a topology. It also defines route for messages in multi-hop fashion that is from any node to any other node in the same network. It can provide reliability by multipath routing and thus comply with self-healing architecture. Figure 2.1 shows three types of topologies that ZigBee supports: star topology, peer-to-peer topology and cluster