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TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire tinyOS applications

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TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire tinyOS applications
Accurate and scalable simulation has historically been a key enabling factor for systems research. We present TOSSIM, a simulator for TinyOS wireless sensor networks. By exploiting the sensor network domain and TinyOS’s design, TOSSIM can capture network behavior at a high fidelity while scaling to thousands of nodes. By using a probabilistic bit error model for the network, TOSSIM remains simple and efficient, but expressive enough to capture a wide range of network interactions. Using TOSSIM, we have discovered several bugs in TinyOS, ranging from network bitlevel MAC interactions to queue overflows in an ad-hoc routing protocol. Through these and other evaluations, we show that detailed, scalable sensor network simulation is possible.
Philip Levis, Nelson Lee, Matt Welsh, David E. Cul
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where SENSYS
Authors Philip Levis, Nelson Lee, Matt Welsh, David E. Culler
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