WSN goodput and energy consumption for various wireless communication standards
Ahmed Kenawy, Ghada Badawi, Michael Makar, Mark Onsy, Ramy Hanna, Hassan H. Halawa, Tarek K. Refaat, Ramèz M. Daoud, Hassanein Hamed Amer, Hany M. ElSayed · 2013
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.