Paper Info
Title
Detailed models for sensor network simulations and their impact on network performance
Abstract
Recent trends in sensor network simulation can be divided between less flexible but accurate emulation based approach and more generic but less detailed network simulator models. We offer an approach with the flexibility of network simulators and provides the accuracy comparable to emulation based approaches. We describe the design and architecture of sensor network simulator which provides a rich suite of following models: sensing stack to model wave and diffusion based sensor channels, an accurate battery model, processor power consumption model, energy consumption model and sensor network based traffic model. We also present our study on the effects of detailed modeling on the performance of higher layer protocols. We describe the impact of using accurate models for battery, processor power consumption and traffic models on the network layer statistics as network lifetime and availability, throughput and routing overhead. Our results show there is high sensitivity of model accuracy on network and application level statistics. In extreme cases we have noticed an inversion of results with our accurate models as compared with previous generation of abstract models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1023663.1023678
MSWiM
Keywords
Field
DocType
accurate model,detailed network simulator model,sensor network simulation,abstract model,detailed model,sensor network simulator,network simulator,network performance,sensor network,network lifetime,traffic model,network layer statistic,simulation,design
Traffic generation model,Simulation,Computer science,Network layer,Network simulation,Real-time computing,Emulation,Wireless sensor network,Energy consumption,Network traffic simulation,Network performance
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-953-5
22
2.28
References 
Authors
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maneesh Varshney1948.56
Rajive Bagrodia22754360.20