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
Worldsens: a fast and accurate development framework for sensor network applications
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
On the accuracy of omnet++ in the wireless sensornetworks domain: simulation vs. testbed
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor,and ubiquitous networks
Simulating wireless and mobile networks in OMNeT++ the MiXiM vision
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
Survey of Wireless Sensor Networks Simulation Tools for Demanding Applications
ICNS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth International Conference on Networking and Services
Lessons Learned: Simulation Vs WSN Deployment
AINA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
Towards comparable simulations of cooperating objects and wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Towards a taxonomy of simulation tools for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Performance and scalability evaluation of the Castalia wireless sensor network simulator
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
A performance comparison of recent network simulators
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Effectiveness Metrics for Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
EC2ND '09 Proceedings of the 2009 European Conference on Computer Network Defense
Making wireless sensor network simulators cooperate
Proceedings of the 7th ACM workshop on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
Validation of WSN simulators through a comparison with a real testbed
Proceedings of the 7th ACM workshop on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
Calibrating and Comparing Simulators for Wireless Sensor Networks
MASS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems
Minimum shift keying: A spectrally efficient modulation
IEEE Communications Magazine
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In the field of wireless sensor networks, not many schemes are tested on real hardware. System designers usually give preference to simulations since their preparation and execution require significantly less time and money than experiments on real hardware. In this paper, we present a practical research on four open-source simulators, i. e., Castalia, Cooja, MiXiM and WSNet. Recently, using a simple test case, we demonstrated that usage of different simulators results into different evaluation outcomes even though the simulators are set in the same way, and the same evaluation metric is used -- a number of packets received by sensor nodes. We hypothesized possible sources of the differences, but we did not thoroughly examine them. In this paper, we rigorously examine the simulators and present our findings regarding the sources of the differences. Also, we evaluate their impact on the evaluation of a more complex system -- the intrusion detection system.