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Enhanced TOSSIM for Sensor Network Simulations

• Raju Kumar and Aditya YSV
• CS598C Virtual Machines and Their Applications
• Spring 2006

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TinyOS

• Event driven
• Split phase paradigm
• Components and Interfaces
• Commands, Events and Tasks

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TOSSIM

• Scalability
• Completeness
• Fidelity
• Bridging
• Comparison with NS-2

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TOSSIM Highlights

• Compiler support
• Hardware emulation
• ADC
• Clock
• Radio stack
• EEPROM
• Radio Models
• TinyViz

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Enhanced TOSSIM Goals

• Locating bottlenecks to decrease simulation time
  and providing solutions
• Multiple applications
• Heterogeneous networks
• Mobility Models
• Timer overflow issues
• Explore additional functionality

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References

• Levis, P., Lee, N., Welsh, M., and Culler, D.
  2003. TOSSIM accurate and scalable simulation of
  entire tinyOS applications. In Proceedings of the
  1st international Conference on Embedded
  Networked Sensor Systems (Los Angeles,
  California, USA, November 05 - 07, 2003). SenSys
  '03. ACM Press, New York, NY, 126-137.
• Shnayder, V., Hempstead, M., Chen, B., Allen, G.
  W., and Welsh, M. 2004. Simulating the power
  consumption of large-scale sensor network
  applications. In Proceedings of the 2nd
  international Conference on Embedded Networked
  Sensor Systems (Baltimore, MD, USA, November 03 -
  05, 2004). SenSys '04. ACM Press, New York, NY,
  188-200.
• TinyOS webpage - http//tinyos.net/
• TOSSIM Manual - http//www.cs.berkeley.edu/pal/pu
  bs/nido.pdf

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• Thank You !