Simulation application for Sleep-Awake Probabilistic Forwarding Protocol for Smart Dust environments

Smart Dust network is composed of tiny sensor nodes called motes. Motes can collect data using sensors and communicate with other motes using wireless connections to transfer data to a data collection point. Motes for Smart Dust are commercially available, but they are still not in wide usage as education assets at universities because of their price and available applications. Simulation applications for Smart Dust environment will contribute in further development for future Smart Dust applications. This paper presents initial simulation application which can be used and upgraded to simulate Smart Dust operations. One of goals of this research was to simulate communication capabilities for Sleep-Awake Probabilistic Forwarding Protocol (SW-PFR) which is communication protocol used in Smart Dust environments. This communication protocol is designed to resolve power usage issues what is interesting area in other computer communication environments. In this paper we do not claim that we developed fully operational simulation application, instead we developed component which can be used for further development of simulation tool. In order to make new improvements in this area there has to be available technology to work with it, and simulation environments such as software components presented in this paper will give knowledge contribution.