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Such systems can be envisioned in which the connected devices are powered by energy harvested from ambient sources and stored in long-lifetime capacitors rather than short-lived and polluting batteries. However, due to the unpredictable nature of ambient energy harvesting, such batteryless IoT devices might not always have enough energy to initiate communication. The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) specification defines support for Low Power Nodes (LPNs) using the friendship feature, where the LPN is associated with a neighbouring friend node (FN). The LPN can receive downlink (DL) data and remain connected to the network via the FN that buffers the LPN\u2019s incoming packets while allowing the LPN to save energy by sleeping or turning itself off. This novel BLE feature makes the LPN highly suitable to support the connection of batteryless ambiently-powered IoT devices. While the LPN can decide when to transmit uplink (UL) packets and does not depend on the FN to receive downlink (DL) data, the LPN needs to poll its FN to receive the buffered packets. However, the DL packet latency increases with this process due to the buffering time at the FN. Therefore, in this work, we present an analytical model to characterize the performance as a function of DL data latency and packet delivery ratio (PDR) of a batteryless LPN powered by different harvesting powers and capacitor sizes. This would help to optimally choose the correct configuration of the batteryless LPN for its network deployment. We also compare the analytical model and simulation results, showing consistency with an average error of 2.23% for DL data latency and 0.09% for the PDR.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22082841","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,7]],"date-time":"2022-04-07T21:08:22Z","timestamp":1649365702000},"page":"2841","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Downlink Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Batteryless Low Power BLE Node"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5268-0808","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ashish Kumar","family":"Sultania","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"IDLab-Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp-imec, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0719-7198","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carmen","family":"Delgado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"i2CAT Foundation, 08034 Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2194-9728","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chris","family":"Blondia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IDLab-Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp-imec, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3587-1354","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jeroen","family":"Famaey","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IDLab-Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp-imec, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Buchmann, I. 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