Citation
Ricardo Gonzalez. "Modeling Network Lifetime in a WSN using Visual Sense". Talk or presentation, 16, April, 2009; Poster presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference.

Abstract
There are many QoS metrics that could be used to measure the performance of a network, elapse time and throughput are two of the most common ones, but in a wireless sensor network -due to its battery power resource limitations-, its lifetime has become one of the most relevant metrics. Network Lifetime is normally used as an optimization parameter, where a larger lifetime will be better, but in some applications could be even more interesting to consider network lifetime as a constrain, in order to warrant a minimum operation lifetime that enables the network to reach its goals [Min04], [Ami07]. The recent advances on micro electronics, wireless communications, and battery technology have enabled some devices to operate with common batteries in large periods of time, that range from some days to some months, and even years. Developing real experiments to evaluate the impact of implemented strategies on this time scale can be impractical. Due to this fact a better strategy would be to develop analytical or simulation model to determine if a wireless sensor network would perform a reliable operation through the whole period of time that will be needed. In this work we describe some techniques and strategies that we are using to model a wireless sensor networks lifetime with the support of VisualSense-PtolemyII modeling tool.

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  Ricardo Gonzalez. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/565.html"
  ><i>Modeling Network Lifetime in a WSN using Visual
  Sense</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  16, April,
  2009; Poster presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy
  Miniconference.

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  Ricardo Gonzalez. "Modeling Network Lifetime in a WSN
  using Visual Sense". Talk or presentation,  16, April,
  2009; Poster presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy
  Miniconference.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Gonzalez09_ModelingNetworkLifetimeInWSNUsingVisualSense,
      author = {Ricardo Gonzalez},
      title = {Modeling Network Lifetime in a WSN using Visual
                Sense},
      day = {16},
      month = {April},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Poster presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy
                Miniconference.},
      abstract = {There are many QoS metrics that could be used to
                measure the performance of a network, elapse time
                and throughput are two of the most common ones,
                but in a wireless sensor network -due to its
                battery power resource limitations-, its lifetime
                has become one of the most relevant metrics.
                Network Lifetime is normally used as an
                optimization parameter, where a larger lifetime
                will be better, but in some applications could be
                even more interesting to consider network lifetime
                as a constrain, in order to warrant a minimum
                operation lifetime that enables the network to
                reach its goals [Min04], [Ami07]. The recent
                advances on micro electronics, wireless
                communications, and battery technology have
                enabled some devices to operate with common
                batteries in large periods of time, that range
                from some days to some months, and even years.
                Developing real experiments to evaluate the impact
                of implemented strategies on this time scale can
                be impractical. Due to this fact a better strategy
                would be to develop analytical or simulation model
                to determine if a wireless sensor network would
                perform a reliable operation through the whole
                period of time that will be needed. In this work
                we describe some techniques and strategies that we
                are using to model a wireless sensor networks
                lifetime with the support of VisualSense-PtolemyII
                modeling tool.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/565.html}
  }
  

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