TY - JOUR 
A1 - Egea López, Estebán
T1 - Simulation scalability issues in wireless sensor networks.
Y1 - 2006
SN - 0163-6804
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/423
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1668384&isnumber=34938
AB - The formidable growth of WSN research has opened challenging issues about their performance evaluation. Despite the steady increase in mathematical analysis and experimental deployments, most of the community has chosen simulation for
their study. Although it seems straightforward, this approach
becomes a quite delicate matter. Complexity is caused by several issues. First, the large number of nodes heavily impacts
simulation performance and scalability. Second, credible results demand an accurate characterization of the sensor radio channel.
New aspects, inherent in WSN, must be included in simulators, e.g. a physical environment and an energy model, leading to
different degrees of accuracy versus performance. Moreover, many necessary models are in the continuous-time domain (e.g.
heat transmission, battery discharge), being complex to integrate into discrete event network simulators. These issues result in
an exponential growth of the overall network state information.
Through this survey we review these problems both quantitatively and qualitatively while depicting a common suitable simulation
model. We also briefly describe the most significant simulation frameworks available.
KW - Ingeniería Telemática
KW - Wireless sensor networks
KW - Simulation
KW - Modeling
KW - Discrete-event simulators
LA - eng
PB - IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics.
ER -