Simulating and testing mobile wireless sensor networks

David J. Anthony, William P. Bennett, Mehmet C. Vuran, Matthew B. Dwyer, Sebastian Elbaum, Felipe Chavez-Ramirez

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3 Scopus citations

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMSWiM'10 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
Pages49-58
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2010 - Bodrum, Turkey
Duration: Oct 17 2010Oct 21 2010

Publication series

NameMSWiM'10 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Conference

Conference13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2010
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityBodrum
Period10/17/1010/21/10

Keywords

  • reliability
  • testing
  • wireless sensor networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Modeling and Simulation

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