Simulating Network Link Compression in Loss-less Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) Environment
Rozita Teymourzadeh, Ramona Carmen Stoica, Robert Chang, Vahab Pournaghshband · 2021
Communication among wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilize high power consumption and therefore the significant efforts have been taken to minimize the usage for low-power wireless applications. With the advent of the network compression algorithm, loss-less compression wireless solution attracts significant attention due to its property of reducing resources to store and transmit data and perfectly reconstruct the original data from the compressed data in a loss-less environment. To allow network researchers to simulate currently deployed networks, Network Simulator 3 (NS-3) needs to incorporate as many standard networking technologies as possible. One such technology is lossless payload compression in wireless network environments such as WSNs. While compression has been employed in various network environments, unfortunately, there is not yet an implementation for NS-3, a powerful, extensible, and popular simulator used for network research. This paper presents a verification of loss payload compression for the NS-3 environment. We strongly believe that the proposed tool contributes significantly to grow wireless researches and projects by simulating, analyzing, testing, and validating the network behavior.