Impact of Switching Latency Times in Energy Consumption of IEEE 802.15.4 Radio Transceivers

The energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks medium access control protocols depends on the adopted radio transceiver. This paper addresses the influence of the switching latency times in the energy consumption of IEEE 802.15.4 radio transceivers. Three different radio transceivers have been considered operating in the 2.4 GHz band. Simulation results performed in OMNET++ show that the radio transceiver with the shortest latency switching time has better performance in terms of energy consumption.

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