Óscar Gama, Paulo Carvalho, P.M.Mendes*
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Simulation studies have been extensively adopted in the networking
research community. Nevertheless, the performance of the software
components running within the network devices is often not modeled by
generic network simulators. This aspect is particularly important in
wireless sensor networks (WSN). As motes present very limited computing
resources, the overhead of the software components cannot be ignored.
Consequently, WSN simulation results may diverge significantly from the
reality. After showing experimentally the validity of this assumption,
the paper proposes a set of generic equations to model the performance
of WSN software components. Validation tests using contention and
multiplexing-based MAC protocols show that the inclusion of the
proposed model in a WSN simulator improves the confidence degree in the
simulation results significantly.
9th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2011), Spain.