Research Article
Simulation Blocks for TOSSIM-T2
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554371, author={Prabhakar Tamma and Venkatesh S. and Sujay Sholapurkar and Joy Kuri and Praveen kumar Kumar}, title={Simulation Blocks for TOSSIM-T2}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Wireless Systems: Advanced Research and Development}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={WISARD}, year={2008}, month={6}, keywords={Tossim PowerTossim MICA2 TinyOS energy estimation}, doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554371} }- Prabhakar Tamma
Venkatesh S.
Sujay Sholapurkar
Joy Kuri
Praveen kumar Kumar
Year: 2008
Simulation Blocks for TOSSIM-T2
WISARD
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554371
Abstract
We develop several hardware and software simulation blocks for the TinyOS-2 (TOSSIM-T2) simulator. The choice of simulated hardware platform is the popular MICA2 mote. While the hardware simulation elements comprise of radio and external flash memory, the software blocks include an environment noise model, packet delivery model and an energy estimator block for the complete system. The hardware radio block uses the software environment noise model to sample the noise floor. The packet delivery model is built by establishing the SNR-PRR curve for the MICA2 system. The energy estimator block models energy consumption by Micro Controller Unit(MCU), Radio, LEDs, and external flash memory. Using the manufacturer’s data sheets we provide an estimate of the energy consumed by the hardware during transmission, reception and also track several of the MCUs states with the associated energy consumption. To study the effectiveness of this work, we take a case study of a paper presented in [1]. We obtain three sets of results for energy consumption through mathematical analysis, simulation using the blocks built into PowerTossim-T2 and finally laboratory measurements. Since there is a significant match between these result sets, we propose our blocks for T2 community to effectively test their application energy requirements and node life times.