Simulating Wireless Sensor Networks with OMNeT++ Export

@misc{citeulike:1005959, abstract = {Wireless sensor networks have the potential to become significant subsystems of engineering applications. Before relegating important and safety-critical tasks to such subsystems, it is necessary to understand the dynamic behavior of these subsystems in simulation environments. There is an urgent need to develop simulation platforms that are useful to explore both the networking issues and the distributed computing aspects of wireless sensor networks. Current efforts to simulating wireless sensor networks largely focus on the networking issues. These approaches use well-known network simulation tools that are difficult to extend to explore distributed computing issues. Discrete-event simulation is a trusted platform for modeling and simulating a variety of systems. We report results obtained from a new simulator for wireless sensor networks networks that is based on the discrete event simulation framework called OMNeT++. Work is underway to develop a simulation platform that allows developers and researchers to investigate topological, phenomenological, networking, robustness and scaling issues related to wireless sensor networks. As a first step, we have developed simulations for the 802.11 MAC and the well-known sensor network protocol called Directed Diffusion. We demonstrate the performance of our simulator by comparing its performance to that of the well-known simulator ns2. Our results indicate that our simulator executes at least an order of magnitude faster than NS-2 and makes more efficient use of the available memory. The ease of modifying the sensor network and scalability, which is defined as the number of nodes that can be simulated, are two distinguishing features of our simulator. Index Terms Sensor Network, Performance Evaluation, Simulation}, author = {Mallanda, C. and Suri, A. and Kunchakarra, V. and Iyengar, S. S. and Kannan, R. and Durresi, A. and Sastry, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {1005959}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://csc.lsu.edu/sensor_web/final papers/OMNet -IEEE-Computers.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://csc.lsu.edu/sensor_web/final%20papers/OMNet++-IEEE-Computers.pdf}, keywords = {omnet, simulation}, posted-at = {2006-12-21 14:47:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Simulating Wireless Sensor Networks with OMNeT++}, url = {http://csc.lsu.edu/sensor_web/final papers/OMNet -IEEE-Computers.pdf} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1005959 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1005959 N2 - Wireless sensor networks have the potential to become significant subsystems of engineering applications. Before relegating important and safety-critical tasks to such subsystems, it is necessary to understand the dynamic behavior of these subsystems in simulation environments. There is an urgent need to develop simulation platforms that are useful to explore both the networking issues and the distributed computing aspects of wireless sensor networks. Current efforts to simulating wireless sensor networks largely focus on the networking issues. These approaches use well-known network simulation tools that are difficult to extend to explore distributed computing issues. Discrete-event simulation is a trusted platform for modeling and simulating a variety of systems. We report results obtained from a new simulator for wireless sensor networks networks that is based on the discrete event simulation framework called OMNeT++. Work is underway to develop a simulation platform that allows developers and researchers to investigate topological, phenomenological, networking, robustness and scaling issues related to wireless sensor networks. As a first step, we have developed simulations for the 802.11 MAC and the well-known sensor network protocol called Directed Diffusion. We demonstrate the performance of our simulator by comparing its performance to that of the well-known simulator ns2. Our results indicate that our simulator executes at least an order of magnitude faster than NS-2 and makes more efficient use of the available memory. The ease of modifying the sensor network and scalability, which is defined as the number of nodes that can be simulated, are two distinguishing features of our simulator. Index Terms Sensor Network, Performance Evaluation, Simulation TI - Simulating Wireless Sensor Networks with OMNeT++ KW - omnet KW - simulation AU - Mallanda, C AU - Suri, A AU - Kunchakarra, V AU - Iyengar, SS AU - Kannan, R AU - Durresi, A AU - Sastry, S UR - http://csc.lsu.edu/sensor_web/final papers/OMNet -IEEE-Computers.pdf ER -