Small forwarding tables for fast routing lookups
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
GloMoSim: a library for parallel simulation of large-scale wireless networks
PADS '98 Proceedings of the twelfth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
SensorSim: a simulation framework for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
System architecture directions for networked sensors
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Methodology for hardware/software co-verification in C/C++ (short paper)
ASP-DAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Efficient wireless network simulations with detailed propagation models
Wireless Networks - Special issue: Design and modeling in mobile and wireless systsems
Simulation of large ad hoc networks
MSWIM '03 Proceedings of the 6th ACM international workshop on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Detailed models for sensor network simulations and their impact on network performance
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Simulating the power consumption of large-scale sensor network applications
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
A system for simulation, emulation, and deployment of heterogeneous sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Contiki - A Lightweight and Flexible Operating System for Tiny Networked Sensors
LCN '04 Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
A dynamic operating system for sensor nodes
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
MANET simulation studies: the incredibles
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review - Special Issue on Medium Access and Call Admission Control Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks.: The Digital Library version of this issue has a corrected special issue title compared to the one in the print version of the issue.
TWIST: a scalable and reconfigurable testbed for wireless indoor experiments with sensor networks
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Avrora: scalable sensor network simulation with precise timing
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
SensorWare: Programming sensor networks beyond code update and querying
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
COOJA/MSPSim: interoperability testing for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Real Deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks
SENSORCOMM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Third International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Energy-aware simulation for wireless sensor networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
A performance comparison of recent network simulators
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Flexible energy-aware simulation of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Accurate power-aware simulation of wireless sensor networks considering real-life application code
Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
On the credibility of wireless sensor network simulations: evaluation of intrusion detection system
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
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Many limitations (e.g. complexity, cost, scalability and capability) make the analytical methods and physical testbeds improper to evaluate the performances of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Simulations can provide a good approximation at lower cost and in less time. Hence, a number of simulation tools for WSN have been developed in the past few years. However, different tools may emphasize on different features. For example, besides the general network simulators, some SystemC-based simulators have been developed recently in order to realize the hardware/software (HW/SW) co-design of the node at the system-level that also takes into account its network performances. So it is necessary to study the existing WSN simulators and to distinguish their different features. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy that categorizes the existing simulation tools into four classes according to their modeling methodologies and their target applications. In order to prove that the proposed taxonomy is reasonable and comprehensive, we use it to make a survey of the existing simulation tools. This study is intended to be broad enough to cover all the important existing simulation tools. The goal of this paper is to analyze the WSN simulation tools and help the WSN designers find an appropriate simulator.