Energy Framework: An Extensible Framework for Simulating Battery Consumption in Wireless Networks

This paper presents the Energy Framework, an extensible OMNeT++ framework for modeling battery consumption in wireless networks, particularly sensor networks. The Energy Framework is highly modular, separating modeling of the internal state of the battery from the modeling of operations that consume energy. This structure enables functionality that is not easily supported in other models, including multiple sources of energy consumption, explicit battery state-of-charge estimation, and a variety of abstractions for energy consuming operations. The Energy Framework uses only generic OMNeT++ features, with the exception of handling host failure due to battery depletion, which is framework specific.