SENSORIA: A New Simulation Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

This paper considers the simulation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) using new approach. We present Sensoria, a fully fledged simulator for WSNs that has considerable differences to all other existing simulators. Sensoria is very powerful in simulating a range of small to large scale WSNs based on a simple and complete Graphical User Interface (GUI). Sensoria's GUI allows users to design various simulation scenarios and display the simulation results graphically with many formats. Sensoria is a component-based simulator and it can be easily reconfigured to adapt to different levels of simulation details and accuracy. We demonstrate the usage of Sensoria via studying many performance metrics of a set of simple and flat routing protocols that are customized by Sensoria. The paper concludes with evidence that, albeit being simple and ease-of-use, Sensoria proves to be efficient and effective tool for WSN research purposes.