The simulation on wireless sensor networks
Binghao Li, Liai Gao, Beisi Zhou · Figshare · 2011
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted significant attention in the past few years and have been widely implemented in battlefield communication, environmental sensing, and traffic monitoring. They consist of large numbers of cooperating small-scale motes, each only capable of limited processing performance, short-range radio transmission, and low power sensing capacities. As such, there has been an increasing need to define and develop simulation frameworks for carrying out highfidelityWSN simulation, which should be easily chosen and employed by researchers as well. This book chapter surveys the recent simulation work on WSN and presents the available up-to-date simulators. Each simulation tool is described based on some certain criteria and compared under the appropriate evaluation standards in terms of different task requirements. This also provides the readers with a better understanding of the latest development of WSN simulation and helps them to incorporate their ownWSN research work into the suitable simulation development environment in the future. © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.