Paper Info
Title
Towards comparable simulations of cooperating objects and wireless sensor networks
Abstract
Simulators are indispensable tools to support the development and testing of cooperating objects such as wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, it is often not possible to compare the results of different simulation tools. Thus, the goal of this paper is the specification of a generic simulation platform for cooperating objects. We propose a platform that consists of a set of simulators that together fulfill desired simulator properties. We show that to achieve comparable results the use of a common specification language for the software-under-test is not feasible. Instead, we argue that using common input formats for the simulated environment and common output formats for the results is useful. This again motivates that a simulation tool consisting of a set of existing simulators that are able to use common scenario-input and can produce common output which will bring us a step closer to the vision of achieving comparable simulation results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.7651
VALUETOOLS
Keywords
Field
DocType
towards comparable simulation,generic simulation platform,simulation tool,common output format,different simulation tool,comparable simulation result,wireless sensor network,common scenario-input,common output,comparable result,common input format,common specification language
Specification language,Computer science,Real-time computing,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.62
28
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thiemo Voigt13458250.13
Joakim Eriksson285958.37
Fredrik Österlind361134.90
Robert Sauter418510.14
Nils Aschenbruck555556.28
Pedro J. Marrón660.62
Vinny Reynolds7776.59
Shu Lei82927216.78
Otto Visser960.96
Anis Koubaa1060860.30
Andreas Kopke1131323.09