A decision-support tool for Wireless Sensor Networks

The design of efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is a very hot topic nowadays. The efficiency could be observed at many levels, from the application layer to the physical part. In order to get better performances over WSN, many parameters could be considered: the application type, the routing protocol, the MAC protocol, the physical protocol, the radio range of nodes, the topology of the networks. In this paper ¹, ², we present a support-tool that we have developed in order to manage all these parameters in order to help designers to choose the most appropriate value for each parameter involved in the design of efficient solutions based on WSN. This tool has used a learning step where intensive simulations have been conducted. The results of this step allow the platform to suggest the most appropriate parameter for any situation chosen by the designer. The tool could be handled easily with adequate GUI. In addition, it is also able to generate NS-2 scripts in order to check the efficiency of the proposed configurations.