Assessment of network simulators for real world WSNs in forest environments

Kolega, E; Vescoukis, V; Voutos, D

dc.contributor.author	Kolega, E	en
dc.contributor.author	Vescoukis, V	en
dc.contributor.author	Voutos, D	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:47:17Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:47:17Z
dc.date.issued	2011	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/33056
dc.subject	Climate Change	en
dc.subject	Environmental Conditions	en
dc.subject	Large Scale	en
dc.subject	Logic Gate	en
dc.subject	Mathematical Model	en
dc.subject	Network Simulator	en
dc.subject	Object-oriented Model	en
dc.subject	Open Source	en
dc.subject	Operations Management	en
dc.subject	Path Loss	en
dc.subject	Performance Comparison	en
dc.subject	Performance Optimization	en
dc.subject	Rural Area	en
dc.subject	Seasonality	en
dc.subject	High Density	en
dc.subject	Wireless Sensor Network	en
dc.subject.other	Environment protection	en
dc.subject.other	Environmental applications	en
dc.subject.other	Environmental crisis	en
dc.subject.other	Forest area	en
dc.subject.other	Forest environments	en
dc.subject.other	High density	en
dc.subject.other	High spatial density	en
dc.subject.other	Human society	en
dc.subject.other	Measurements and monitoring	en
dc.subject.other	Network simulation tools	en
dc.subject.other	Network simulators	en
dc.subject.other	Open sources	en
dc.subject.other	Operational management	en
dc.subject.other	Other applications	en
dc.subject.other	Performance optimizations	en
dc.subject.other	Technological advances	en
dc.subject.other	Vegetation density	en
dc.subject.other	Visualization tools	en
dc.subject.other	Wild fire	en
dc.subject.other	Wireless sensor	en
dc.subject.other	Climate change	en
dc.subject.other	Sensors	en
dc.subject.other	Simulators	en
dc.subject.other	Visualization	en
dc.subject.other	Wireless sensor networks	en
dc.title	Assessment of network simulators for real world WSNs in forest environments	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1109/ICNSC.2011.5874918	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2011.5874918	en
heal.identifier.secondary	5874918	en
heal.publicationDate	2011	en
heal.abstract	Environment protection and preservation is an in season issue today, more than ever before. It has become a critical concern as the climate change threatens the sustainability of human societies; in this context exploitation of any technological advance in protecting the environment is more than welcome. Wireless sensor network applications appear as a promising technology, very helpful to many environmental applications. As the cost of such networks becomes more reasonable, deploying a wireless sensor network at a high spatial density can be a major aid in environmental crisis detection, prediction and even operational management. A typical such case is wild fire detection, but several other applications are also possible. In this context, network simulation tools can play a great role in WSN implementation, in performance optimization, reliability and cost, especially as the scale of deployment can become very large. However, current WSN simulation and visualization tools, most of which are not designed with WSNs consisting of tens of thousands of nodes in mind, still have some shortcomings. In this paper we report our experience from some well known open source WSN simulators and discuss their capabilities and possible weaknesses when used in the simulation of high density WSNs. We compare the results of a common simulation scenario produced by the use of three well-known simulators. These results are also matched against measurements taken out of real world WSN measurements and monitoring in a forest environment, and specifically in a forest area with high vegetation density. In this context, conclusions and assessments are attempted on the maturity of these simulation and visualization tools for large-scale WSN deployments in such environments. © 2011 IEEE.	en
heal.journalName	2011 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2011	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/ICNSC.2011.5874918	en
dc.identifier.spage	427	en
dc.identifier.epage	432	en