Simon Kellner, Mario Pink, Detlev Meier and Erik-Oliver Blaß

The Fifth Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, January 23-25, 2008

Abstract:

Energy consumption is one of the most critical protocol properties in a wireless sensor network. Therefore, a precise energy model is required for the evaluation of protocols. In addition to evaluation, an energy model can also be used for on-line energy accounting. After processing user queries, nodes aware of the energy model can send an energy bill towards the network's data sink. This allows the user to adjust future queries to be more energy efficient. The contribution of this paper is twofold: First, a theoretical energy model based on simple finite automata is presented. This model can be used for online accounting, simulation and generation of a-priori knowledge. Second, the proposed theoretical model is backed up by practical measurements using a new measurement device called SNMD, which also offers management functions for sensor-net testbeds. Therewith, output of the theoretical model can be compared to and validated against by real-world measurements.

BibTex:

@inproceedings{kellner08wons08,
  author = {Simon Kellner and Mario Pink and Detlev Meier and Erik-Oliver Blass},
  type = {publication},
  title = {Towards a Realistic Energy Model for Wireless Sensor Networks},
  booktitle = {The Fifth Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2008)},
  address = {Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany},
  year = 2008,
  month = jan # "~23--25",
  affiliation = {University of Karlsruhe, Germany}
}