An Analytical Energy Consumption Model for Packet Transfer over Wireless Links

Author

Vazifehdan, Javad ; Prasad, R. Venkatesha ; Jacobsson, Martin ; Niemegeers, Ignas

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

Volume

16

Issue

1

fYear

2012

fDate

1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

33

Abstract

We provide a detailed analytical model for estimating the total energy consumed to exchange a packet over a wireless link. Our model improves many of the current models by considering details such as consumed energy by processing elements of transceivers, packet retransmission, reliability of links, size of data packets and acknowledgments, and also the data rate of wireless links. To develop the model, we use experimental results based on IEEE 802.15.4 devices to show that consumed energy for receiving erroneous packets is comparable to the consumed energy for receiving error-free packets.

Keywords

Zigbee; radio links; telecommunication network reliability; IEEE 802.15.4 devices; analytical energy consumption model; data packet size; error-free packets; link reliability; packet retransmission; packet transfer; transceiver elements; wireless links; Ad hoc networks; Data models; Energy consumption; Receivers; Reliability; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Energy consumption; analytical modeling; wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2011.111611.110729

Filename

6093911