LinkBench: Benchmark and metric framework for wireless sensor networks

In wireless sensor research a benchmarking environment where multiple platforms, network topologies, and commu nication protocols with changing parameters can be easily described, tested and evaluated under different circumstan ces in a controlled and reproducible way would be a swiss army knife in one´s hand. Such an environment could reveal the effectiveness or the bottleneck of networks and proto cols, could act as software metrics or basic feature sets for comparisons of MAC layers.