Avrora: scalable sensor network simulation with precise timing

— Simulation can be an important step in the development of software for wireless sensor networks and has been the subject of intense research in the past decade. While most previous efforts in simulating wireless sensor networks have focused on protocol-level issues utilizing models of the software implementation, a significant challenge remains in precisely measuring time-dependent properties such as radio channel utilization. One promising approach, first demonstrated by ATEMU, is to simulate the behavior of sensor network programs at the machine code level with cycle-accuracy, but poor performance has so far limited its scalability. In this paper we present Avrora, a cycle-accurate instructionlevel sensor network simulator which scales to networks of up to 10,000 nodes and performs as much as 20 times faster than previous simulators with equivalent accuracy, handling as many as 25 nodes in real-time. We show how an event queue can enable efficient instruction-level simulation ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: IPSN
• Authors: Ben Titzer, Daniel K. Lee, Jens Palsberg
• Keywords: IPSN 2005, Sensor Network Programs, Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks