WSN goodput and energy consumption for various wireless communication standards

Author

Kenawy, Ahmed ; Badawi, Ghada ; Makar, M. ; Onsy, Mark ; Hanna, Rachelle ; Halawa, Hassan H. ; Refaat, Tarek K. ; Daoud, Ramez M. ; Amer, Hassanein H. ; ElSayed, Hany M.

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., American Univ. in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 May 2013

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

45

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodology for calculating the energy consumption and the throughput of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) taking into account retransmissions and data dropped due to collisions. For various scenarios, simulations are conducted using OPNET and utilizing off-the-shelf wireless communications standards such as ZigBee, Low-Power Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi. A figure of merit is then introduced for a fair comparison between the mentioned standards.

Keywords

Zigbee; energy consumption; wireless sensor networks; OPNET; WSN; ZigBee; energy consumption; low-power Wi-Fi; wireless communication standards; wireless communications standards; wireless sensor network; IEEE 802.11 Standards; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Local area networks; Protocols; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee; IEEE 802.11; WSN; ZigBee; collisions; energy consumption; goodput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Konya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5612-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAEECE.2013.6557192

Filename

6557192