Running Real-World Software on Simulated Wireless Sensor Nodes

Georg Wittenburg, Jochen Schiller

Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN '06), pp. 7-11, 2006.

Wireless Sensor Networks, WSNs, Simulation, ScatterWeb, ns-2, Network Simulation, Programming Tools and Abstractions

2006

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@inproceedings{wittenburg06running, author = {Georg Wittenburg and Jochen Schiller}, title = {{Running Real-World Software on Simulated Wireless Sensor Nodes}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN '06)}, year = {2006}, pages = {7-11}, address = {Uppsala, Sweden}, month = {}, abstract = {In the domain of wireless sensor networks, simulation is the preferred way of evaluating new algorithms. One commonly found drawback of simulation tools is that they provide a programming environment that does not match the one present on real-world platforms.\\ In this paper, we address this problem by presenting the steps required to port an existing software stack to a popular network simulator. This novel procedure allows for applications to run both in the simulated environment and on real-world sensor nodes without any changes to the source code. We verify our results by means of performance analyses of several simulated applications.}, day = {19}, file = {http://cst.mi.fu-berlin.de/papers/wittenburg06running.pdf}, keywords = {Wireless Sensor Networks, WSNs, Simulation, ScatterWeb, ns-2}, slides = {http://cst.mi.fu-berlin.de/papers/wittenburg06running_slides.pdf}, theme = {nsim|prog|wsn} }