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Simulating and testing mobile wireless sensor networks

Authors:

David J. Anthony,

William P. Bennett,

Mehmet C. Vuran,

Matthew B. Dwyer,

Sebastian Elbaum,

Felipe Chavez-RamirezAuthors Info & Claims

MSWIM '10: Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems

Pages 49 - 58

https://doi.org/10.1145/1868521.1868531

Published: 17 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Developing applications for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can provide many challenges. Environmental conditions have a large impact on the behavior of an application, but it may not be feasible to replicate the conditions of the deployment environment while creating the application. Furthermore, long-term deployment of monitoring applications require extensive pre-deployment analysis of such applications since the sensors cannot be accessed after their deployment. Through a combination of simulation and software engineering practices, it is possible to rigorously test and validate the software for WSNs. In this paper, several methods for simulating distributed mobile WSNs and testing the software are provided. These methods are used in the development of a WSN that was deployed to track Whooping Cranes during their year long migration.

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MSWIM '10: Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems

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DOI:10.1145/1868521

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Amaxilatis DOikonomou GChatzigiannakis IZomaya ALandfeldt BPrakash R(2012)Adaptive neighbor discovery for mobile and low power wireless sensor networksProceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems10.1145/2387238.2387303(385-394)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2387238.2387303
Anthony DBennett WVuran MDwyer MElbaum SLacy AEngels MWehtje WZhao FTerzis AWhitehouse K(2012)Sensing through the continentProceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks10.1145/2185677.2185747(329-340)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2185677.2185747
Anthony DBennett WVuran MDwyer MElbaum SLacy AEngels MWehtje W(2012)Sensing through the continent: Towards monitoring migratory birds using cellular sensor networks2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920947(329-340)Online publication date: Apr-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920947

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