SensorSim: a simulation framework for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
SENS: A Sensor, Environment and Network Simulator
ANSS '04 Proceedings of the 37th annual symposium on Simulation
Simulating the power consumption of large-scale sensor network applications
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Body Sensor Networks
Perpetual environmentally powered sensor networks
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Avrora: scalable sensor network simulation with precise timing
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Accurate prediction of power consumption in sensor networks
EmNets '05 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors
The Energy Endoscope: Real-Time Detailed Energy Accounting for Wireless Sensor Nodes
IPSN '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
A Survey on Sensor Webs Simulation Tools
SENSORCOMM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
J-Sim: a simulation and emulation environment for wireless sensor networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
Simulation scalability issues in wireless sensor networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Towards a taxonomy of simulation tools for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Proceedings of the 6th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
GreenCastalia: an energy-harvesting-enabled framework for the Castalia simulator
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems
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Energy-aware sensor nodes are usually tightly energy-constrained, execute energy-efficient algorithms, have the ability to interrogate and control the devices used for storing and consuming energy, and often feature one or more sources of energy harvesting. Due to the cost, time and expertise required to deploy a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), simulation is currently the most widely adopted evaluation method. Network simulation is well established for mobile ad hoc networks, using simulators such as the popular ns2. However, the differing characteristics and performance criteria of WSNs introduce additional simulation requirements, and this has resulted in a number of simulators and simulator extensions developed specifically for this purpose. This paper investigates the suitability of a number of state-of-the-art simulators for evaluating energy-aware WSNs, and subsequently proposes a novel structure for simulating energy-aware WSNs. The proposed structure provides diverse, flexible and extensible hardware and environment models, and integrates a structured architecture for embedded software to enhance the design of energy-aware sensor nodes. To illustrate an implementation of the structure, details of - and observations obtained using - an in-house simulator (WSNsim) are presented.