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Title:

On Multi-Agent Strategies For Efficiently Designing Competent Integrated Hardware-Generic Simulation Systems of Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors:

Alexander Filippou, Dimitrios A. Karras

Published in:

 

 

(2015).ECMS 2015 Proceedings edited by: Valeri M. Mladenov, Grisha Spasov, Petia Georgieva, Galidiya Petrova, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2015

 

 

ISBN: 978-0-9932440-0-1

 

29th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Albena (Varna), Bulgaria, May 26th – 29th, 2015

 

Citation format:

Alexander Filippou, Dimitrios A. Karras (2015). On Multi-Agent Strategies For Efficiently Designing Competent Integrated Hardware-Generic Simulation Systems Of Wireless Sensor Networks, ECMS 2015 Proceedings edited by: Valeri M. Mladenov, Petia Georgieva, Grisha Spasov, Galidiya Petrova  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2015-0221

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2015-0221

Abstract:

This research deals with several key issues concerning WSN design process. Due to the nature of these networks, debugging after deployment is unlikely, thus a wellorganized testing methodology is required. WSN simulators could achieve such a task, but still code implementing mote sensing and RF behaviour consists of layered and/or interacting protocols that for the sake of designing accuracy are tested working as a whole, running on specific hardware. Simulators that provide cross layer simulation and hardware cross platform emulation options may be regarded as a significant milestone for improved WSN design process. The herein proposed multi-agent simulation architecture aims at designing a novel generic WSN simulation system independent of specific hardware platforms but taking into account all hardware entities and sensor network events for testing and analysing the behaviour of a pragmatic WSN system. Details of the implementation are provided as well as a preliminary validation of the simulator in C# involving motes based on two different hardware platforms, randomly deployed over WSN motes.

 

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