Title :
Performance Evaluation of NS-2 Simulator for Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Xue, Yunjiao ; Lee, Ho Sung ; Yang, Ming ; Kumarawadu, Priyantha ; Ghenniwa, Hamada H. ; Shen, Weiming
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Western Ontario, London
Abstract :
Simulation for wireless sensor networks has become a challenging exercise due to the hardware design, energy constraints, and deployment of large number of nodes. NS-2 has been widely used in network simulations but does not perform well for wireless sensor networks. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the NS-2 simulator based on performance evaluation of simulation results, and proposes some improvements needed in NS-2 to cope up with wireless sensor network simulations.
Keywords :
wireless sensor networks; NS-2 simulator; wireless sensor networks; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Delay; Hardware; Network topology; Routing protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. CCECE 2007. Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1020-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0840-7789
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2007.345
