An Energy Model of the Ultra-Low-Power Transceiver nRF24L01 for Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Author

Weder, Andreas

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Photonic Microsyst., Dresden, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

28-30 July 2010

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

123

Abstract

In the recent years, Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) attracted much attention in the research community. The key to success for WBSNs is the utilization of highly efficient transceivers and the application of intelligent policies to handle the limited (energy) resources. Simulations are a frequently used tool to evaluate different policies and analyze the performance of wireless networks in different configurations. The nRF24L01 is an ultra-low-power transceiver for the 2.4 GHz frequency band which is very well suited to build simple but efficient WBSNs. This work presents a detailed simulation model of the nRF24L01 for MiXiM, a simulation framework for wireless networks. The implementation is focused on tracking the transceiver´s energy consumption in operation. The presented simulation model is a valuable tool for network designers and implementers when working with the nRF24L01.

Keywords

body sensor networks; low-power electronics; transceivers; MiXiM; energy consumption; energy model; frequency 2.4 GHz; nRF24L01; ultra-low-power transceiver; wireless body sensor networks; Batteries; Energy consumption; Hardware; Payloads; Physical layer; Transceivers; Wireless sensor networks; 2.4GHz ISM; Energy Consumption; Energy Model; Simulation; WBSN; Wireless Body Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks (CICSyN), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liverpool

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7837-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4158-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICSyN.2010.24

Filename

5614722