DEVS-TOSSIM: A DEVS framework for simulation of TinyOS wireless sensor networks

DEVS-TOSSIM is a simulation framework, which implements the DEVS formalism, to test and simulate wireless sensor networks that use the TinyOS operating system.

Features

• Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks: DEVS-TOSSIM can simulate heterogeneous wireless sensor networks, which implies that in the same simulation can coexist nodes that run different software and hardware.
• Duty-cycling: the transceiver model supports duty cycling.
• User interface: simple user interface to control the simulation; the interface allows the user to control time during the simulation, for example: execute the simulation in real-time, as fast as possible or step-by-step.
• Integration with external systems: functionality is provided to integrate the simulator with external hardware or software systems.
• Extensible framework: the framework allows the replacement of the sensor component of a node, the addition of mobility, the implementation of a new radio model or modeling a complex sensing environment.

Documentation

• User guide

• Radio model

• Debugging

• Limitations

• Development guide

The history behind of DEVS-TOSSIM

DEVS-TOSSIM software is the implementation of my degree thesis in computer engineering at the school of engineering of the University of Buenos Aires.