Model based performance estimation in ZigBee based wireless sensor networks

Within the main research in the area of the wireless sensor networks (WSN's) performance values like throughput, energy consumption, network load, treatment time or memory usage become an important role. The early analysis of these values allows conclusions with regard to the realizability of the radio technology in relation to possible application areas. ZigBee as the best known representative of the WSN technologies is focused in this paper. Parts of the ZigBee specification are transformed in an abstract executable model. Using this model performance analyses can be done. As a technical platform for validation against model results ZEBRA2411-SM-modules are used for a series of field measurements.