Fast and Accurate Simulation of Biomonitoring Applications on a Wireless Body Area Network

of the entire platform. This granularity is not helpful for the developer to detect and optimize the critical components. A fast but cycle-accurate simulator can overcome these drawbacks. It allows the developer to determine accurately the processing and energy performance of individual module in the application, under different configurations. This infor- mation can then be used to tune the system. Such flexibility facilitate quick design space exploration. In this paper, we present a fast simulator for biomonitoring applications running on wireless BAN. Our work is part of Embedded and Hybrid System II program in Singapore, centered on the development of a Body Sensor Node (BSN) system and of relevant health-care applications. The project is carried out by Singapore Agency of Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) with collaborations from Institute