On the accuracy of MANET simulators
Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Principles of mobile computing
Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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.
A Survey of Simulation in Sensor Networks
CIMCA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control & Automation
Realistic simulation of energy consumption in wireless sensor networks
EWSN'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
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Simulation studies have been extensively adopted in the networking research community. Nevertheless, the performance of the software components running within the network devices is often not modeled by generic network simulators. This aspect is particularly important in wireless sensor networks (WSN). As motes present very limited computing resources, the overhead of the software components cannot be ignored. Consequently, WSN simulation results may diverge significantly from the reality. After showing experimentally the validity of this assumption, the paper proposes a set of generic equations to model the performance of WSN software components. Validation tests using contention and multiplexing-based MAC protocols show that the inclusion of the proposed model in a WSN simulator improves the confidence degree in the simulation results significantly.