Download A Simulator for Marine Wireless Sensor Networks

ABSTRACT
Most of the research for wireless sensor networks has been done for terrestrial
applications. There is growing interest in marine wireless sensor networks for data
collection for oceanography applications, water conditions, and exploration. Marine
wireless sensor networks are in early stages of research and much work needs to be
done to move wireless sensor networks underwater. Currently, underwater nodes are
not available commercially making it hard to test existing protocols in an underwater
environment or develop new underwater protocols. This report presents a simulator
with underwater channel capabilities.
This project implements a simulator that contains an underwater acoustic channel. It is built on top of OMNeT++ and the MiXiM framework. The simulator
can run both underwater and terrestrial simulations. The simulator can use many of
MiXiM’s existing modules for MAC layer. The simulator provides a simple networking layer that includes discovery, static clustering and simple routing. These modules
and MiXiM’s modules can be used as basis for developing new simulations.
A graphical user interface has been developed that can be used to configure and
run a simulation without using the OMNeT++ integrated development environment.
This interface is less complex, but allows most of the configuration parameters found
in OMNeT++ to be set. Configuration of specific nodes can be loaded through a
separate file.
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