TITLE:
Low Power Transceiver Design Parameters for Wireless Sensor Networks
AUTHORS:
Adinya John Odey, Daoliang Li
KEYWORDS:
Transceiver Design Parameters; Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks; Energy Model
JOURNAL NAME:
Wireless Sensor Network,
Vol.4 No.10,
October
30,
2012
ABSTRACT: Designing low power sensor networks has been the general goal of design engineers, scientist and end users. It is desired
to have a wireless sensor network (WSN) that will run on little power (if possible, none at all) thereby saving cost,
and the inconveniences of having to replace batteries in some difficult to access areas of usage. Previous researches on
WSN energy models have focused less on the aggregate transceiver energy consumption models as compared to studies
on other components of the node, hence a large portion of energy in a WSN still get depleted through data transmission.
By studying the energy consumption map of the transceiver of a WSN node in different states and within state transitions,
we propose in this paper the energy consumption model of the transceiver unit of a typical sensor node and the
transceiver design parameters that significantly influences this energy consumption. The contribution of this paper is an
innovative energy consumption model based on simple finite automata which reveals the relationship between the aggregate
energy consumption and important power parameters that characterize the energy consumption map of the
transceiver in a WSN; an ideal tool to design low power WSN.