Demo abstract: Accurate power profiling of sensornets with the COOJA/MSPsim simulator

Power consumption is of utmost concern in sensor networks. Researchers have several ways of measuring the power consumption of a complete sensor network, but they are typically either impractical or inaccurate. To meet the need for practical and scalable measurement of power consumption of sensor ne...

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Main Authors: Eriksson, J., Osterlind, F., Voigt, T., Finne, N., Raza, S., Tsiftes, N., Dunkels, A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computational modeling
Current measurement
Energy consumption
Hardware
Instruments
Microprogramming
Portable computers
Power measurement
Testing
Time measurement
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Summary:Power consumption is of utmost concern in sensor networks. Researchers have several ways of measuring the power consumption of a complete sensor network, but they are typically either impractical or inaccurate. To meet the need for practical and scalable measurement of power consumption of sensor networks, we have developed a cycle-accurate simulator, called COOJA/MSPsim, that enables live power estimation of systems running on MSP430 processors. This demonstration shows the ease of use and the power measurement accuracy of COOJA/MSPsim. The demo setup consists of a small sensor network and a laptop. Beside gathering software-based power measurements from the motes, the laptop runs COOJA/MSPsim to simulate the same network.We visualize the power consumption of both the simulated and the real sensor network, and show that the simulator produces matching results.
ISSN:2155-6806
2155-6814
DOI:10.1109/MOBHOC.2009.5337011